![]() So, when Reddit aired its grievances against the insatiable appetite for “free” data on part of big corporations, the grievances themselves were, in our opinion, quite valid. We have long criticized the practice of Big Tech where they gobble up publicly accessible information from the Internet, without caring about whether it’s copyrighted or not or if it contains sensitive personal data, for the supposedly higher goal of training AI. Indeed, WebText2, a dataset which was used to train OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 model was revealed to consist of web pages with high rating or karma scraped from Reddit. “It’s a good time for us to tighten things up,” he added. “Crawling Reddit, generating value and not returning any of that value to our users is something we have a problem with,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told the New York Times. This move followed Twitter’s footsteps, which had cut off free access to its API and introduced paid tiers, with an enterprise tier aimed at developers starting at a whopping $42,000 per month.Īt the time Reddit claimed that the reason for charging for its API was to rebuff the “largest companies in the world” like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft who scrape Reddit for data to use it in AI training. In April, Reddit announced that it would start charging for access to its API (application programming interface), which is a way for other apps to tap into Reddit’s data and features. How Reddit turned its own community on itselfīefore we dive into the current drama, let’s rewind a bit and see how it all started. The protest was to last two days and end on June 14, but some subreddits, like r/iPhone, said that they would not return unless a “a reasonable resolution is proposed.” Some of the most popular subreddits, such as r/funny with over 30 million users, went private on June 12 to protest Reddit’s move to charge third-party developers for using its API. Whether you’re an hardcore redditor or a classic lurker, there’s a high chance you’ve been affected by the blackout that saw some 8,000 subreddits with the cumulative number of subscribers of more than 2.6 billion going dark.
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