Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators
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The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas
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The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas
Think of it as killing two birds with one stone: they monetize users by getting AI firms to pay for all the valuable content redditors have posted over the years, and they kill off app competitors who are giving redditors alternatives to the mobile app.
That’s really all it’s about.
AI firms will just scrape anyway.
Which, somewhat hilariously, will be more resource intensive than the API. It's a part of the reason why companies have APIs, to dissuade scraping.