Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
arstechnica.com
Mod-made tool claims to have banned 144,926 spambot accounts.

Title says it all. If you think Reddit’s been trending down lately, just wait.

  • Paralda@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Also, AI only really needs to scrape a post once. I don’t think there will be much financial gain from openai or someone else scraping reddit

    • awderon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      They don’t even need to scrape it. There is a torrent out there with all the data for the last 10 years or so neatly packaged.