CEO Steve Huffman says tech giants should not be able to trawl Reddit’s huge store of data for free. But that information came from users, not the company
Oh you built this community through your own time moderating, posting, upvoting and commenting? Cool we’re gonna sell it to Vanguard for a few billy and pocket the profits! And, here’s a list of approved content you’re allowed to post now. Hard pass bro nobody cares about your IPO when we built your company.
Look, u/spez has been very clear about this, he’s not threatening anyone, he is just ensuring we only talk about Rampart. You know for the users.
Every time Paint Hufferman opens his mouth I want to down an IPA. I think I’m going to die of alcohol poisoning.
That is pretty much the gist of it. Reddit profited off the free labor of its users. Now they are disrespecting them. That is not going to end well.
i saw a spez quote, one of the sickest things i’ve ever read, about how people are sharing things on reddit, especially in mental health / recovery spaces, “that they wouldn’t even share with a therapist”, and isn’t it a fucking travesty that that hasn’t been properly harvested and monetized
this guy should be put in a fucking padded room
edit: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/18/technology/reddit-ai-openai-google.html
“There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or AA, or never at all … But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
The more shit I hear come out of his mouth the more I’m disgusted that I ever used reddit. Aaron Swartz must be spinning in his grave
Unfortunately, I feel like Swartz would be spinning for a LOT of things that Web 2.0 turned out to be and propagate. We don’t even blink at the idea of personal data being shared across unknown anonymous networks. It’s a matter of “whatev’s, they’re welcome to find out what porn I like”.
Like remember when that Will Smith movie “Enemy of the State” came out and although it’s way over the top, it was totally on point in principle on how vulnerable we are in networks overseen by anonymous government entities and private companies.
Now we fucking applaud hundred-millionaires becoming billionaires for capitalizing on the internet stew we all threw our goods in for fun research, and internet community
There are a lot of users/bots sponsored by corrupt institutions & industries on that platform, be sceptical.
Huffman claims it’s about things like LLM training that uses the API, as if it isn’t possible to validate apps that want to use the API and only issue keys for approved apps. This could save third party apps while preventing bad actors from gaining access to the data without scraping the site.
No, if bad actors were the problem then the solution would be much different.
The only problem Huffman has is that Huffman’s bank account doesn’t have enough zeros and he aims to change that no matter what.
