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is this why reddit is charging for its API? to try to capture value from the entities training LLMs on reddit data?
by perfmode 3y ago
is this why reddit is charging for its API? to try to capture value from the entities training LLMs on reddit data?
- asddubs 3y agothat ship has probably sailed, since pushshift hosts a copy of all of reddit, including removed content. it's really weird to me that they even allowed that level of access for that long (FWIW I don't agree with the recent changes, but I see little legitimate reason to give someone a way to scan and copy all recently made posts across all subreddits).
- pjc50 3y agoArchiving. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36254172 It's very much "he who has the power to destroy a thing controls that thing"; so long as there's only one canonical copy of a post and it's on Reddit's servers, that's vulnerable to actions by the subreddit mods or Reddit themselves.