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They priced the API for LLM training and killing third-party apps is just a great bonus. If they wanted to retain third-party apps while protecting their revenu
by hendersoon 3y ago
They priced the API for LLM training and killing third-party apps is just a great bonus. If they wanted to retain third-party apps while protecting their revenue stream they could have simply created a new free API including all the ads. They deliberately chose to kill these apps.
- phendrenad2 3y agoI think Hanlon's Razor applies here.
- dontreact 3y agoWhy wouldn’t people then just scrape using the free API?
- nawgz 3y agoMost users are not technical Most technical users are still happy to use a GUI over writing their own scraper / visualizer
- bluefirebrand 3y agoYou can throttle APIs so they are still useful for a human browsing content, but essentially worthless for scraping meaningful amounts of data. You can also detect accounts that are displaying scraping behavior and block them.
- dontreact 3y agoAn LLM only has to download text once. You could easily coordinate a scrape across various IPs and accounts over the course of a couple of months and it would be really hard to detect. Especially if you target alternate GUI api based versions of the site.