Comment on On the future of Lemmy vs reddit
Robaque@feddit.it 1 year agoI’ve been wondering if the API change was actually a move to prevent anyone but themselves from using Reddit’s data to train AI.
That’s what I assumed from the beginning: think of the goldfish for generative ai and they are using Reddit data. Actually, it even seems fair to share in the potential (but what about the users who created it all?).
However if that was their intent, they sure screwed it up
Yes, they specifically have said they don’t want AI companies to get their user data for free. What’s interesting is that we as a culture have internalized and accepted the idea that our user-made content is something only tech companies have the right to profit from and fight over.
ArrrborDAY@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Likely so, though scraping will still yield the data. Maybe they will make scraping harder too.
Robaque@feddit.it 1 year ago
Maybe that’s why their mobile app and new website sucks lol