YouTube disallowing adblockers, Reddit charging for API usage, Twitter blocking non-registered users. These events happen almost at the same time. Is this one of the effects of the tech bubble burst?

  • AtheistAndroid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The answer is AI. Amongst other things. Reddit is about to go public and wants everyone on their main app for advertising and tracking. Twitter is dealing with hosting issues with Google.

    Plus AI companies are extracting content from Twitter and Reddit to train their AI models like chatGPT which is a huge money maker, and these platforms aren’t getting any money from it so they’re trying to make it more difficult to get access to it. They want companies like OpenAI and Stability and Microsoft and Google to pay large sums of money for access to their content to train AI on.

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      1 year ago

      The thing with AI is that it is both a parasite to the content it is trained on and an alternative to it because people who ask AI don’t ask in forums

      These tech giants are searching for a way to keep everyone happy but I honestly don’t see any

      Reddit just realized it has been sitting on a pile of gold the entire time and now it wants to reap its rewards

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        1 year ago

        Makes me wish there was a way to force them to remove everything I ever posted on their site.

        But… It’s their site and I put the shit there. Who knew it would come to this, though?

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      1 year ago

      It’s easy to work around the AI issue by providing the devs an API key for Apollo, RIF, etc. and charging a reasonable price. Instead Spez took the nuclear option like all platforms these days. They don’t give a single fuck about the users.

      Anyway it’s been happening for years like others have mentioned. Once stakeholders are involved if you have to ask a question the answer is always money