• garibaldi_biscuit@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is what the 3rd party access to API was really all about.

    When API access was allowed , all reddit content was effectively free: They needed to ban 3rd party apps so they could sell the accumulated content. I expect using content to train AI also factors into it.