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In response to Huffman’s comments, moderators are trying to find ways to make blackouts effective. Alternatively, some communities are also setting up servers on alternative sites like Lemmy and Kbin.

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    1 year ago

    What’s to stop AI companies from just scraping Reddit’s HTML? The two big AI companies—Google and Microsoft—already do that as part of their search engine indexing!

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      1 year ago

      HTML scraping is standard practice for AI development in most major companies. It’s not even actually that difficult, there are tools like Selenium that make it really easy and manageable to completely automate.