Interesting theory for what might have been another motivation behind the API changes. After all, Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) is a member of the Reddit board. What do you think?

edit: this is not my article by the way

  • simple@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t get it, it’s not like Reddit is a hard website to crawl without an API. I can write a script to crawl a website in an afternoon with something like Selenium, and they can’t stop me. AI companies already have a big enough dataset from Reddit, I doubt they’ll invest in the API at all.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, AI devs using API is just bs reason, you can crawl any site that doesn’t require login so easily. And reddit doesn’t want to limit robot crawling because they would lose Google results also.