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LLM trainers can just scrape the content. It would only slow them down. I wonder if reddit imagines they would pay for the data.

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There's maybe a handful of sites that people explicitly append to their google search results in order to cut out the SEO spam, reddit is probably the one that covers the most subjects.

So I think they are thinking that and I don't think they're wrong.

I think they're wrong. I was building a product search app using the reddit api, but with their API pricing it isn't remotely feasible financially so I shuttered it. They may see $$$$ but I suspect they'll find very few takers.

Yes, the data is valuable for product recommendations, but not at the price they are asking. And if they ever block traditional scraping then all those "append reddit to google" searches will be gone too. Google is not going to pay them either.

Unless they are entirely delusional (which is possible), they have to had priced it with a specific few customers in mind. If they think they can get a cut of ChatGPT money going forward, I think they would be entirely willing to sacrifice all 3rd party apps and a decent chunk of their mobile users.

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