minus-squareMedicareForSome@lemmy.mltoTechnology@beehaw.org•Do You Think There Would Have Been a Large Protest if Steve Huffman Just Said We're Charging to Use the API to Increase Revenue?linkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoI really don’t think that 3rd party apps were anything but collateral damage. I think his real goal is to try and capitalize off of AI training. He clearly saw these companies using reddit data to train AI for like no money and got upset. linkfedilink
minus-squareMedicareForSome@lemmy.mltoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Reddit: Don't like us anymore? Pay us $50/year!linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s open source. linkfedilink
I really don’t think that 3rd party apps were anything but collateral damage. I think his real goal is to try and capitalize off of AI training.
He clearly saw these companies using reddit data to train AI for like no money and got upset.