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Reddit is in danger of a death spiral (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Can Reddit survive as its volunteer workforce close down subreddits and walk away from the site in protest at the management's new policies?

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[โ€“] s38b35M5 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Reddit would start charging for using its application programming interface (API) because AI companies, such as Google and OpenAI, had been using the site's data to train their large language models...

This is so strange to me. Doesn't he know that they already scraped the site? That ship has sailed. They don't need to continually scrape reddit. You don't back an LLM with a live website, you use an offline repo of the data.

[โ€“] Syanide 3 points 1 year ago

They keep scraping all new entries for up-to-date LLM's, it's on going battle who has best models.

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