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Posting from Narwhal r/getnarwhal. Reddit wants money. To get it they use ads. 3rd party apps don’t allow Reddit to access ad revenue. Therefore they are making it prohibitively expensive to access their API killing every 3rd party app.
Comment by donnysaysvacuum at 06/06/2023 at 18:59 UTC
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They could just require apps to show ads, or charge a reasonable fee.
Comment by snozburger at 06/06/2023 at 20:11 UTC
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LLMs are being trained using Reddit data which is free in bulk via API.
The data is a valuable resource that other tech firms are leveraging to launch products with a huge hype cycle. Chaging for this is fair enough.
Unfortunately there are other more legitimate uses of the API such as 3rd party apps that will be impacted. Effectively collateral damage.