• Nailbar
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    1 year ago

    Will the bots dissapear when the API becomes inaccessible?

    • hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest
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      1 year ago

      Most likely. API access is actually the preferential way of handling things because the alternative (scraping) requires more server resources.

      If a company offers a free tier of their API (even if it’s insufficient) it is unlikely they’re friendly to scrapers.

      Recently Reddit opened up devvit as a way for redditors to build approved internal bots but it didn’t seem like they intended to staff a team to build replacements any time soon

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        1 year ago

        I’m curious how much of Reddit’s traffic will drop once bots don’t have access.

        Maybe tomorrow will show how much of Reddit was bots.

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      1 year ago

      The free bots that were helpful (like remindmebot) will probably all die, whereas advertisers will pay for artificial chatgpt users to boost their own content.