With AI eating the web, Reddit is going on the offensive.
  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
    801·
    5 months ago

    You’ll need to make a licensing deal, like Google and OpenAI have done, to use Reddit content for model training and other commercial purposes.

    So it’s not actually about protecting anyone’s data, or making the internet a nicer place to be at all, Huffman is just mad that they’re potentially missing out on more revenue streams. I can’t say I’m surprised

    • 9point6@lemmy.world
      34·
      5 months ago

      *mad that he torched the site for this business model, only for Google to find that the data was basically useless for training

    • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      5 months ago

      It likes bots writing to the site, for the engagement; it doesn’t like bots reading the site (for free).