• geoffervescent@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    As long as you only use on a browser with adblock, and don’t actively support their changes, it isn’t letting them win. Spez is trying to built a wall around his garden of extremely useful information, go nab some tomatoes while they’re not yet rotten.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Reddit wins as long as actual people are posting and commenting. Selling advertising is just a stopgap; the goal is to sell peoples behavior patterns and current trends in communicating about information. He sees the cash cow as being a legitimate AI training corpus to sell subscriptions to.

      Of course, this will fail as soon as people deploy chatbots using those same models across the redditverse.