Reddit is OpenAI’s moat
www.cyberdemon.org
Interpreting Reddit's API changes in light of how it serves OpenAI.

Interesting theory for what might have been another motivation behind the API changes. After all, Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) is a member of the Reddit board. What do you think?

edit: this is not my article by the way

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It doesn’t make sense to me, AI companies already have reddit data, language models have been on the training for years, blocking access now wouldn’t change anything from that point of view.

    It’s much more likely reddit wants to monetize mobile access before the IPO, to please investors, killing 3rd party apps is the only way for them to have full control on mobile access.

  • supernovae@readit.buzz
    0·
    1 year ago

    I’ve heard the inverse reasoning that the API is limited because of OpenAI crawling it - which makes no sense if CEO is part of reddit board.

    I just don’t care at this point ;)

    • meli nasa@feddit.deOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, but the reasoning in the post is that OpenAI has already profited from the data, and might have a better position to negotiate special access with them than smaller companies, thus reducing competition.