I know there’s other plausible reasons, but thought I’d use this juicy title.

What does everyone think? As someone who works outside of tech I’m curious to hear the collective thoughts of the tech minds on Lemmy.

  • Butt Pirate@reddthat.com
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    8 months ago

    It doesn’t have to be nefarious. The API change at Twitter and Reddit were ostensibly about the fact that OpenAi et. al. pretty much downloaded all their content for free.

    Throw in the fact that you can ingest all of wikipedia for free and you have a shitload of knowledge at your disposal.