I had the same thought but with OpenAI being the buyer. I think Gruber was right that a lot of the motivation for the recent Reddit API changes are OpenAI (and

I had the same thought but with OpenAI being the buyer. I think Gruber was right that a lot of the motivation for the recent Reddit API changes are OpenAI (and other AI startups) using Reddit data and becoming ultra-valuable: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/09/reddit-ipo https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/06/09/reddit-ipo That data was helpful, but if Reddit is blacked-out, or people move to more walled-off forums it makes future iterations of ChatGPT and the like more difficult to train on recent developments. Why not have OpenAI run Reddit as a way to get lots of moderated data into its models?