[heatmiser]

I understand (note: I don't necessarily agree) with Reddit's decision to alter its API amidst the AI renaissance of 2023. OpenAI and their ilk recognized the value of this dataset for training, regrettably for Reddit, before Reddit itself did. Now, it's Spring 2023, the data horse has bolted, and Huffman is looking for dollars to wipe the egg off of his face.

Though Huffman should have foreseen such a turn of events, we all collectively erred in the same way when we surrendered our social graphs to Facebook in the 2000s. Furthermore, Facebook committed a blunder similar to Reddit's, allowing Twitter to establish their social graph before Zuckerberg secured that data.

To the disadvantage of thousands of communities, millions of users, and even the Reddit corporation itself, capitalist forces are pushing Reddit's leadership to recoup every possible cent of opportunity cost.