Reddit still has to contend with a 'simmering rage' as users return back to the platform
in regards to struggles that come with being a moderator."I take all this abuse for you, and keep your website clean, and this is how you repay us?"later this year, announced that it would be making changes to its API pricing policy back in April as a way to bolster its finances beforehand. For the past several years Reddit has offered up its API— which gives third party entities access to its massive corpus of conversations — for free.
In the advent of the AI boom, though, in which companies like OpenAI and Google have been training their large language models with data from Reddit, the platform's data is a valuable asset. Reddit's changes to its API are"Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business, and to do that, we can no longer subsidize commercial entities that require large-scale data use," Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman,Reddit did not immediately respond to Insider's request for a comment.
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