return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoReddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI botstechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square320linkfedilinkarrow-up1928arrow-down114cross-posted to: reddit@lemmy.worldreddit@lemmy.world
arrow-up1914arrow-down1external-linkReddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI botstechcrunch.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square320linkfedilinkcross-posted to: reddit@lemmy.worldreddit@lemmy.world
minus-squareZagorath@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·1 month agoThey’re concerned about AI scraping. They want to sell access to users’ content for training, not let the AI in for free.
minus-squaredreamkeeper@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoExactly. They definitely care. They want the AI companies coughing up dough for all that data. Thankfully redlib still works
minus-squareZagorath@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month ago Thankfully redlib still works For now
minus-squaredreamkeeper@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoYeah definitely not optimistic it’ll keep working
minus-squareBillionaireStew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoIt could also be to make things difficult for redlib, which uses the reddit API.
They’re concerned about AI scraping. They want to sell access to users’ content for training, not let the AI in for free.
Exactly. They definitely care. They want the AI companies coughing up dough for all that data.
Thankfully redlib still works
For now
Yeah definitely not optimistic it’ll keep working
It could also be to make things difficult for redlib, which uses the reddit API.