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Reddit could block Google Search, Bing, if the AI companies don’t pay up to use its data
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Reddit could block Google Search, Bing, if the AI companies don’t pay up to use its data

[ad_1] Of late, many platforms that manage a large amount of data, especially social media platforms, news websites, and large blog sites have expressed their frustrations at bots being used by companies working with AI to crawl these platforms and scrape their data to train large language models (LLM). Many companies are asking to be paid by AI firms now. Among them is Reddit, whose senior officials recently met with AI companies to strike a deal, however, they have not yet been able to reach any agreement. A report claims that if Reddit cannot reach an agreement soon, it can block bots from crawling its site, even if it means that the platform will get delisted from Google and Bing search engines.According to a report by The Washington Post, a person familiar with the matter said that...
Reddit hit by protests! Check out the ‘killer’ reason and much more | Explainer
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Reddit hit by protests! Check out the ‘killer’ reason and much more | Explainer

[ad_1] Reddit, the popular online discussion forum is facing major protests from its users, moderators, and third-party apps. Yesterday, thousands of subreddits went private as a part of their 48 hours long protest against the company's new API pricing policy. Reddit even suffered a massive outage on Monday after so many subreddits went dark. Even now, Reddit is struggling with frustrated users as most of the popular communities are not accessible to them. But what has prompted Reddit users and moderators to take such drastic measures and what exactly is this new API pricing policy that has been called a “third-party app killer”? Let us take a look.What made the subreddits go dark?On April 18, 2023, Reddit announced that it would start charging third parties for its application programm...
Reddit suffers MASSIVE outage ahead of planned API changes; Thousands of subreddits go dark
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Reddit suffers MASSIVE outage ahead of planned API changes; Thousands of subreddits go dark

[ad_1] On Monday, June 12, the popular discussion forum Reddit suffered a massive global outage. As many as 45,000 users reported issues accessing the website and different subreddits, as per Downdetector, the online outage monitor. The outage occurred the same day when thousands of subreddits planned to protest the company's new API pricing changes by going private. According to a report, subreddits going dark was in part the reason behind the company suffering the outage. The subreddits are expected to protest till June 14th.A Reddit spokesperson told The Verge, “A significant number of subreddits shifting to private caused some expected stability issues, and we've been working on resolving the anticipated issue”. The servers began working normally after a couple of hours, however man...