Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models
bier@feddit.nl 9 months agoIs it? Because when you build a bot and just scrape Reddit I don’t think you can just use the content to train AI, just like the New York Times. The API change was definitely to sell more ads and get a higher IPO, but I don’t think it was because of AI.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Am I crazy or are you arguing the same point? Scraping is not the same as API access. They closed off the API to everyone for dubious reasons so they can sell that content (both for ads and AI training)… Right??
bier@feddit.nl 8 months ago
No you’re not, the post was editted. The original one said it was all because of AI, the entire reason for the API change was to sell to companies.