A standoff between the site and some of its most devoted users exposes an existential dilemma.

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    61 year ago

    My speculation is that they want to charge LLMs like ChatGPT, especially for training. Those devs basically want to access every conversation on Reddit.

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        71 year ago

        What’s weird, it doesn’t make sense even then. I feel like it started as a simple miscalculation by Spez which he took personally. I mean, the part he insulted the Apollo dev is clearly that, but maybe the whole thing as well?

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        11 year ago

        Google Scholar does just that stoppage, for example. It’d be cheaper to pay API fees.