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Reddit’s golden geese foul up its IPO plans (www.reuters.com)

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Thousands of moderators overseeing the site’s subreddits are on strike. It’s a wrinkle in Reddit’s plan to go public, and a sign that plan is premature, columnist Anita Ramaswamy writes.

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[–] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ai training data gets gathered with scrapers... It literally doesn't need the api. And they only need everything once. And maybe update it every year or so...

Also the whole nsfw thing...

This is just and only to kill third party clients.

And spez is close to someone that works for "open" ai... So a even more clownshow move.

[–] earthling@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Huh.. I would have thought they'd use the API when available but I honestly know nothing about it. Wouldn't gathering data via API provide more structured data thereby making it easier to feed into their models?

[–] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Often its easier to just scrape everything rather than making a whole code to pull api requests and put them into a database and sort them while doing so. These companies scrape the entire internet, they don't have time or necessarie to use api, they don't need permanent access to a two way communication, they just need the data.

[–] earthling@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Good point.