Wow, his answers and arguments are really bad. Doesn’t acknowledge that AI scrapers abused their system, not apps to access and interact with Reddit. Practically says they will imitate Apollo. Admits that they unreasonable timeline was a way to coerce deals.
#reddit #redditblackout
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762868/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview

True: “A lot of AI firms are scraping content and massively accessing the API to train their large language models,” Hanlin Li, a postdoc scholar at the University of California-Berkeley who studies Reddit moderation, told Motherboard. “The enemy is not necessarily Reddit, but the companies who are scraping this content to train their AI models, and it’s creating this secondary impact on the moderators Reddit relies on.” #reddit #redditblackout
https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5yykm/the-reddit-protest-is-a-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-human-internet