“Huffman characterized the Reddit protesters as a small but vocal cadre of angry users who are not in touch with the greater Reddit community.”
But with artificial intelligence-powered large language models like Microsoft-backed ChatGPT and Google’s Bard, a massive corpus of conversations is being hoovered up. And in return, Reddit receives very little, he said.
If they take our content and build businesses on it, that’s an issue," Huffman said. “If they build businesses such that people come to Reddit less, that’s an issue.”
“Our content” my ass. This is the same as the CEO thinking they’re entitled to the fruits of your labor.
He seems pretty angry about Microsoft and Google hoovering up ‘his’ data. Funny how he’s gone after the 3rd party app developers instead of Microsoft and Google.
Surely those two giants will simply just scrape the data they need if it’s public facing, API or not?
If they take our content and build businesses on
Is like all irony lost to this guy? Literally describing reddit.
I’m protesting by disappearing like a fart in the wind.
I left Reddit because Apollo is going away and the official app is shit. I’m staying away for good because I have no desire to support this guy Huffman in any way. He is the epitome of what greed does to a person. I can’t believe this guy was one of the founders and has absolutely zero respect for the community that was created there. Capitalism corrupts people and I don’t want to be part of it.
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I guess the subreddits weren’t committed enough to the whole blackout thing. :/ It’s a shame really. Situations like these show that companies can get away with almost anything if they care more about profits than their image.
It’s a small group
Doesnt sound much like a small and unimportant group by how much their PR team are pushing out these articles.
I appreciate that Inskeep asked Huffman some hard questions about the Reddit blackout, but it was infuriating to hear Huffman’s half-truths
