this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2023
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I feel like this move has nothing to do with investors and everything to do with setting the standard for big corps like Microsoft and Google to be able to scrape their massive amount of data to train next gen AIs. They know they have HUGE amount of data from now and for years and years ago. Content, created by others, then sold for enormous profit.
If he thinks locking down the API is going to stop them, he's bumped his head. These companies have more than enough manpower to write and maintain an HTML scraper for Reddit.
Man, even I can do that and I'm hardly a programmer.