Reddit is OpenAI’s moat
www.cyberdemon.org
Interpreting Reddit's API changes in light of how it serves OpenAI.

Interesting theory for what might have been another motivation behind the API changes. After all, Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) is a member of the Reddit board. What do you think?

edit: this is not my article by the way

  • supernovae@readit.buzz
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    1 year ago

    I’ve heard the inverse reasoning that the API is limited because of OpenAI crawling it - which makes no sense if CEO is part of reddit board.

    I just don’t care at this point ;)

    • meli nasa@feddit.deOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, but the reasoning in the post is that OpenAI has already profited from the data, and might have a better position to negotiate special access with them than smaller companies, thus reducing competition.

      • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        I can guarantee that openai has not taken the data of reddit though API, they have crawled it through like everyone else (Google, Microsoft, etc.). Reddit doesn’t want to limit that, it would hurt their Google visibility.