Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

  • BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    This must be how they plan to raise revenue, since people don’t buy enough gold and badges to support the site

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      That isn’t how it works for publicly traded companies. There is no such thing as enough only more

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        11 months ago

        Plus they don’t even need to be profitable. They just have to convince some rich losers that they might be profitable at some undetermined time in the future.

        • Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
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          11 months ago

          A lot of times it’s more like the old Taxi medallions. You paid 400k for the medallion, operated it for a few years, and then sold it to the next guy for the going rate which is likely around 400k.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Well, they did. I guess the definition of “support” has changed. Probably to include more yachts.