Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.

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    Apparently, the substance and quality of thought Redditors post may be a disposable commodity. That is eyeballs on ads may be secondary to our function as generators of natural language as grist for training artificial intelligence—with third-party apps a civilian casualty in a bigger war for the almighty dollar.

    According to https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/reddit-sparks-outrage-after-a-popular-app-developer-said-it-wants-him-to-pay-20-million-a-year-for-data-access/ar-AA1c06d9:

    Part of the motivation for Reddit’s plan involves the surging popularity of artificial intelligence.

    Large language models such as ChatGPT are developed using training data, which in many cases is sourced from content found across the internet. Reddit should not be expected to provide that data to “some of the largest companies in the world for free,” CEO Steve Huffman told the New York Times in a recent interview.

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      Huffman is full of shit. Now I wonder who generates all that data and content on Reddit. Most of it absolutely wasn’t stolen from other sites, right?

      The TOS literally says they (Reddit) doesn’t own it.

      Lol The hippocracy of Huffman. The Newhouse family should really can him.