“He added that he plans to make changes to moderator policies so users can vote them out. Currently, a higher-ranking moderator — or the company — can boot out moderators. Incidentally, a r/Apple moderator posted on Twitter (via 9to5Mac) that Reddit was threatening to remove moderators who are staging an indefinite blackout.”
But it’s interesting that spez blamed it all on “BUSINESSES” that are getting free service. if Elno is his CEO role model I’m going to assume he’s familiar with the method of saying what you mean to say while saying something else. What “businesses”? He never really specificed so I don’t think this is a “”“”““business””“”“”“”" freeloading problem.
it’s like he wants to turn Reddit into the GenX Facebook because he’s counting on people just not caring to/not being able to figure out the Fediverse.
just thaenkin. 🤔
He’s mad that a large part of the training corpus for LLMs (incl chatGPT) is just reddit posts and their comments, and that he saw 0 money of it.
Of course, LLM training data only needs to be pulled once and heavily compressed, a way of downloading reddit used to offer where you’d just get a large zip file with all of reddit until now, for free. They’re retiring this, which means that the guys making the datasets will either stop (not a good thing, reddit is too nice of a data source) or start scraping the website, which generates additional costs for reddit for 0 reason.
Basically spez is pretending this one-time heavily optimized download is costing him billions, so he takes it out on 3rd party apps instead, because it’s too late to go after openAI, since they already got their copy.