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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They're concerned about AI scraping. They want to sell access to users' content for training, not let the AI in for free.

[–] BillionaireStew@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

It could also be to make things difficult for redlib, which uses the reddit API.

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Exactly. They definitely care. They want the AI companies coughing up dough for all that data.

Thankfully redlib still works

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thankfully redlib still works

For now

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah definitely not optimistic it'll keep working