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Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models (mashable.com)
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[โ€“] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If they already, essentially, cut off API access then it's not a big leap to limit access on the web to logged in users only and rate limit or ban accounts that behave like scrapers.

[โ€“] Verserk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

That would matter more if it wasn't trivial to make new accounts and very cheap to buy established ones.