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Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)
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[โ€“] mellowheat@suppo.fi 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well of course, that's the #1 reason why everyone stopped providing free-to-use APIs last year. Because AI companies were getting all that data for free via those APIs.

[โ€“] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

oh, really