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Re:AI is killing the old web by pasmafaute on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @09:40AM (#36492578)
I stopped reading in the first paragraph.

> Redditors are staging blackouts.

The implication that the Reddit blackouts are related to recent AI advances is ridiculous. The embedded link also makes no mention of AI.

I dislike this kind of disingenuous clickbait. It's not worth my time to keep reading.

In a way I should thank them for the early red flag. This way I don't need to waste my time on the whole article.

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Re:AI is killing the old web by bacchusracine on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @12:56PM (#36495610)
>The implication that the Reddit blackouts are related to recent AI advances is ridiculous.

The allegation is that most of ChatGPT can be traced back to their using sites like Reddit and Twitter to scrape the information from for its training data. Reddit is changing the cost of accessing its APIs as a direct result of this and not really about killing off third party clients. That's the connection.

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