Forbes (echoing spez) argues that the role of Reddit's data in training LLMs is what's driving the API cost increase. But the fact that nobody is mentioning web scraping -- i.e. the way LLM training data is taken from the rest of the web, and the way that LLM training data will be taken from Reddit in the absence of API access -- the fact that no one is mentioning that LLMs will continue collecting and training on Reddit data for free through scraping, tells me that this was only ever a fig leaf and an excuse to kill 3rd party apps.
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