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Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by hotpot8toe@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On one hand, that's a shitty, greedy move from Reddit. All of the data, and value is provided by the users.

On the other hand, Microsoft does want to feed it into OpenAI and present it on a Bing search engine result page rather than sending the visitor to Reddit where they might join a community (or view an ad or ten).

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

The article says OpenAI made a deal with Reddit, so blocking Microsoft isn't going to keep Reddit's data from getting fed to OpenAI