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Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely
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this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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That is the claim from Reddit, but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny because LLMs are not using the API to get content from sites like Reddit. They are scraping data from the entire Internet, much like Google does.
Even if it was using the API, however, it's still a bullshit excuse because Reddit would be fully within their rights to enforce existing rate limits or other TOS violations.
Nobody would have been complaining if Reddit revealed that apps like Apollo or OpenAI were abusing the rules that were already in place and everyone agreed to. For that matter, nobody would even be complaining if the pricing and timeline for the changes was anything close to reasonable!