• ram@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    If they wanted to restrict AI Training they’ll need to prevent AI’s ability to view the website. Removing the API just removes the low bandwidth low impact manner of gathering the data. Scripts can just as easily HTTP scrape as they can use an API, but that’s a lot more resource intensive on Reddit’s side. Heck, this is the whole reason free public APIs became a thing in the first place.