Interesting theory for what might have been another motivation behind the API changes. After all, Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) is a member of the Reddit board. What do you think?

edit: this is not my article by the way

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    1 year ago

    Yeah, AI devs using API is just bs reason, you can crawl any site that doesn’t require login so easily. And reddit doesn’t want to limit robot crawling because they would lose Google results also.