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> This Reddit / Stack Overflow API drama feels weird to me as a user. It's USER submitted data. R/SO didn't create it.
> So what ChatGPT scraped it? They're benefiting the same users who contributed the content on R/SO, and then some.
> It's not like ChatGPT is cloning them.
> It would be like if Printing Houses tried to block authors from publishing their content as an eBook or Audiobook.
> Users contributing to your ecosystem doesn't give you perpetual dominion over that content
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> This Reddit / Stack Overflow API drama feels weird to me as a user. It's USER submitted data. R/SO didn't create it.
> So what ChatGPT scraped it? They're benefiting the same users who contributed the content on R/SO, and then some.
> It's not like ChatGPT is cloning them.
> It would be like if Printing Houses tried to block authors from publishing their content as an eBook or Audiobook.
> Users contributing to your ecosystem doesn't give you perpetual dominion over that content