Google is paying Reddit $60 million to not have to respect it. The media reports it's for training data for AI, but none of us have read that contract.
Yes, it makes sense from a 600 million monthly visitors point of view, but that would still be a pretty interesting development if they don't respect it.
if they're getting the data directly from Reddit then they can respect it while still having the content because they're not crawling it via http.
Isn't this monopoly abuse?
any other company, specifically Microsoft/Bing and OpenAI, are free to pay reddit for the same privilege, so I don't see how it could be considered that.
I actually meant from Reddit as they hold a monopoly on online forums imo, but I'm no expert in this, was just wondering