The Impact of API Changes on the Reddit Community

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Elon Musk announced that there would be new limits to how many posts people could read on the site each day. He was clearly trying to position it in a similar way as having to do with AI. The problem was that although the API changes were nominally meant to stop companies like Google and Meta from scraping the site for data, they had big impacts on many third-party apps.

The AI Data Wars come to Twitter as Elon Musk rate limits users in an attempt to block AI data scraping. The move follows big changes to the Reddit API that some have called the end of the internet as we know it. Before that on The Brief: Valve has said they won't approve games for Steam that use AI art that might have copyright issues; Humane shares more information about its Ai Pin wearable; AI enthusiasm in markets is causing some people to worry. Today's Sponsor: Supermanage - AI for 1-on-1's - https://supermanage.ai/breakdown ABOUT THE AI BREAKDOWN The AI Breakdown helps you understand the most important news and discussions in AI. Subscribe to The AI Breakdown newsletter: https://theaibreakdown.beehiiv.com/subscribe Subscribe to The AI Breakdown on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheAIBreakdown Join the community: bit.ly/aibreakdown Learn more: http://breakdown.network/