Here’s some tinfoil. Maybe OpenAI (or some other data hungry org) made a deal with Reddit to build up their data/training moat. Announcing this would have an ev

Here’s some tinfoil. Maybe OpenAI (or some other data hungry org) made a deal with Reddit to build up their data/training moat. Announcing this would have an even bigger backlash than what we’re currently seeing, and could explain why Reddit would shut down API access in such a hamfisted but plausibly deniable matter. To substantiate this a bit, Microsoft already had a pre-existing relationship with Reddit since 2017 [1] to augment their capabilities with Bing and their “BI” tools. They could be leveraging that relationship to boost their investment in OpenAI. [1] https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-microsoft-power-bi-bing https://www.redditinc.com/blog/reddit-microsoft-power-bi-bin...