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- suddenly after the ChatGPT success, they realized that they have valuable data

- next step is to stop third-party apps that generated these data

- then they let the moderators show their power

I’m not sure if people care about a CEO being exposed as a liar nowadays, but maybe some former Yahoo managers have another idea on how to destroy more value.

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>former Yahoo managers

Specifically the ones that ended up in charge of tumblr, so they can suggest "ban adult content on a platform famous for its adult content"

Part of reddit's API changes were going to prevent NSFW content from being viewed through the API but they reversed course on that.

Indeed. Their API changes make very little sense if the goal is to capture the value that content they host has for training LLMs, especially because I don't think there's much value that they can capture there (AI researchers argue that using the content is fair use, and they can simply scrape it if they don't have API access: something which the courts have allowed in similar cases)

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