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It's not entirely self enriching. AI crawlers hit servers hard and everyone has their own crawler. So it's partially covering a business expense. Especially wit
by jajuuka 1y ago
It's not entirely self enriching. AI crawlers hit servers hard and everyone has their own crawler. So it's partially covering a business expense. Especially with Reddit being a goldmine of content for training data.
Internet Archive has been terrible as capturing full pages on Reddit for a while. So it's not a real loss. Unfortunately right now these AI companies have full freedom to do whatever they want. Taking paid content, artistic works, and your own posts on social media. So Reddit trying to charge them is a good idea as it's some form of quid pro quo put on AI scraping companies.
- JohnFen 1y ago> So Reddit trying to charge them is a good idea as it's some form of quid pro quo put on AI scraping companies. Except that what Reddit is really doing is selling content they didn't produce and don't own. I don't think they're walking some kind of high road here like they would be if they were actually fighting against the scraping.
- jajuuka 1y agoI didn't mean to imply they were. As I said, it's not ENTIRELY for self-enriching reasons. As in self-enrichment is a part of the reasons for this effort to combat AI scrapers. That being said I can still take some satisfaction in seeing AI scapers get jammed up considering how they face zero consequences right now.