• argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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    If they want organizations not to scrape their content, tough toenails; stopping them is impossible.

    It’s especially impossible to stop Google and Microsoft from doing it, because they already have a search index full of said content.

    Spez is alienating his loyal user base for nothing.

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      Yeah they could have left current large 3rd party apps alone and said any new API connections from AI companies and etc will be charged 20 million dollars a year…

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        That wouldn’t work either. They’d just scrape the HTML, feed that to the AI, and not pay Reddit one rusty cent. Even I could implement that, let alone a billion-dollar AI company with an army of top-notch programmers.