[dahwolf]

Yesterday Stackoverflow, today Reddit. A clear pattern emerges where open web content/communities face existential issues if the current AI paradigm continues.

It's a daylight robbery. The sum of 18 years of Reddit is an enormous capital investment as well an immeasurable amount of hours spent by its users to create the content.

It's absolutely baffling how a single entity (OpenAI, Google Bard) can just take it all without permission or compensation, and then centrally and exclusively monetize these stolen goods.

The fact that we barely even blink when this happens, and that founders confidently execute on an idea like this, tells you everything there is to know about our industry. It doesn't even pretend to do good anymore. Anything goes, really.

Anyway, get ready for an "open" web that will consist of ever more private places with ever higher walls. Understandably so, any and all incentive to do something on the open web is not only pointless now, it actively helps to feed a giant private brain.

[charcircuit]

Google has been monetizing the comments the entire time. Reddit comments are in Google search results along side ads.

[im3w1l]

Reddit users don't monetize their comments in the first place. So unlike say artists there is really no issue of them being outcompeted by a derivative of their own material.

gpt-style models are by far the least problematic and the most clearly beneficial of the new innovations.

This is a just a cashgrab.

[dahwolf]

"So unlike say artists there is really no issue of them being outcompeted by a derivative of their own material."

Well, except for the tiny detail that the entire point of visiting or posting on Reddit becomes rather pointless.