A standoff between the site and some of its most devoted users exposes an existential dilemma.

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    My speculation is that they want to charge LLMs like ChatGPT, especially for training. Those devs basically want to access every conversation on Reddit.

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      1 year ago

      Is there anything stopping an organization with programming talent from accessing all of Reddit via http and bypassing the API fees?

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        What’s weird, it doesn’t make sense even then. I feel like it started as a simple miscalculation by Spez which he took personally. I mean, the part he insulted the Apollo dev is clearly that, but maybe the whole thing as well?