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If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It isn't like you can't otherwise get the older data if you really want though, pretty sure it's on torrents. The newer stuff is all they have to sell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Google wants the data to be exclusively licensed, so they can pursue any competing LLMs and sue them to death - I mean, develop a 'moat'

It's not really about the actual data access

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I don't buy that, given

  1. All the effort Reddit has put into locking down data access

  2. Google itself was behind the lawsuit establishing fair use for scraped datasets, and it's looking likely that will be upheld

Would be happy to hear it if there's reasons I'm not aware of that this is the intention though