Strike at Reddit!

Greg Taieb · · 2 min read

Reddit is an incredible app.

Whatever your interest, there is a chance that you will find a community on this site that talks about it. With these hundreds of millions of posts, Reddit is a prime target for training Artificial Intelligence, which needs gigantic quantities of data to feed itself.

The CEO of the company therefore wanted to stop this open bar by charging for its API. The problem is that not only the big AI companies are using these APIs.

Many community moderators use third-party tools that provide them with more functionality to remove spam and nonsense.

On June 12, many communities went on strike to protest. We're talking to you about this strike, which raises many questions on content platforms and social networks, particularly on the balance between companies, content creators and moderators.

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