Comment by shiruken on 18/04/2023 at 19:05 UTC*

35 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)

View submission: An Update Regarding Reddit’s API

However, expansive access to data has impact, and as a platform with one of the largest corpora of human-to-human conversations online, spanning the past 18 years, we have an obligation to our communities to be responsible stewards of this content.

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We are introducing a premium access point for third parties who require additional capabilities, higher usage limits, and broader usage rights.

Finally realized you could monetize the underlying data huh? I wonder how much y'all could have charged OpenAI, Google, Meta, etc. for the text corpora used to train their LLMs.

• Edit:* According to this NYTimes interview[1] with u/spez, this is actually *exactly* what these changes are meant to capitalize on. They're done letting ever company train their models on the Reddit comment corpus.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html

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Comment by [deleted] at 19/04/2023 at 10:51 UTC

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Comment by jopicornell at 03/06/2023 at 15:09 UTC

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That translates to: "we want to make our monetization look like we do it for our users." but in fact, the businesses could pay for the data, and users and FOSS are the most affected parts of this.