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[The Guardian] There is no moral high ground for Reddit as it seeks to capitalise on user data (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company

That “corpus of data” is the content posted by millions of Reddit users over the decades. It is a fascinating and valuable record of what they were thinking and obsessing about. Not the tiniest fraction of it was created by Huffman, his fellow executives or shareholders. It can only be seen as belonging to them because of whatever skewed “consent” agreement its credulous users felt obliged to click on before they could use the service.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Wide op for ai scraping and nothing are not the only two options. They could easily limit api calls to what would be good for single users or mods and have each user generate their own key. Apps could let users input their key. Most users wouldn't bother and would switch to their app anyway so it would get them 95% or what they claim to want without being a dick about it.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Plus AI companies can just scrape reddit without using the API. It's still a website after all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For how much longer though? I wouldn't put it past them to try to make it only available through an app

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I highly doubt Reddit is gonna shut down their website.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw a post saying they were testing restricting mobile access to only through the app.

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

Oh yeah, they’ve done that already. I don’t think they’ll extend that to actual web tho

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