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/u/spez finds out (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could they be doing that already because of the still open API of Reddit and that will soon change? I just feel like it's easier for them currently and it will be tougher once the API changes are implemented.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

No. Search engines fetch pages using plain old HTTP GET requests, same as how browsers fetch pages. There is some difficulty in parsing the HTML and extracting meaningful content, but it's too late: the HTML is already stored on Google/Microsoft servers, ready for extraction, and there's nothing Reddit can do to stop them.

Reddit can make future content harder to extract, but not without also making it invisible to search engines, which would cause Reddit to disappear from Google Search and Bing.

That's why I say trying to charge money for AI training data is a fool's errand. These facts make it impossible. That doesn't mean Spez won't try, but it does mean he won't succeed.