That’s how little they got‽ Holy shit. That’s the steal of the fucking century for all that content. Reddit clearly puts the same stock in its negotiators as it does its 3rd party ecosystem. Anyone who values them more than maybe 2x this price for their IPO is a fucking idiot. Forget Trump’s Art of the Deal. spez needs to write a book.
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2024
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I can see it now, that ai model is going to be really, really fucking angry. lol
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Remember kids, don't delete your account. Use scripts to replace all of your posts and comments with nonesense. If there is an option in your script to feed itba "dictionary", I highly suggest using books from the public domain like "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D. H. Lawrence. Replace all images and video links with Steam Boat Willie.
I did pretty much this and everything is back to the way it was.
I did it and it is still nuked. It did take a number of runs though.
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This is why its so important we don't legislate against AI and make it illegal to use scraped data. All the data is already owned by someone, putting up walls only screws us out of the open source scene.
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Does this include art OC posted there being used to train art bots? If I were posting OC art I’d just delete that shit right away, not that it’ll help I suppose
"We need to closec the api in order to protect our users from being used for ai"
I mean, they never claimed it was to protect users. It was to protect their user's data from being used without paying Reddit. They didn't like that AI companies were using Reddit content as a free source of training data, they never gave a shit about their users' privacy.
This is also slightly off. It was primarily to eliminate third party apps from the existing landscape. Reddit want money from users in one of two ways:
- Use their app and pay with your data via invasive tracking and advertising.
- Pay for a third party app that pays them for API access.
Due to the extortionate pricing, (2) was only ever hypothetical. In reality there was no sustainable model for this for any third party app, even as a non-profit.
The case around AI does exist, but it was smoke and mirrors for Reddit pulling the same nonsense that Twitter did once they realized they might get away with it, regardless of the short term damage it would do to their public image.
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It was more like "We need to closec the api in order to protect our profits from the use of your data"