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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators (qz.com)
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The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

He'll probably win this fight yes. He'll probably also los the war hardcore. As the article mentions, we're free labour. If we work for you for free, then we get to have a say in all this as well. Letting ChatGPT learn from reddit with its gazillion API requests? Sure, charge them for it. I wholeheartedly agree. But it's time the company did something for that free labour workforce instead of againt...