It’s another move to protect against AI scraping.
  • JakenVeina@midwest.socialEnglish
    31·
    1 month ago

    The company says that AI companies have scraped data from the Wayback Machine, so it’s going to limit what the Wayback Machine can access.

    Yeah, wouldn’t want those AI companies to get all that data for free. Gotta make 'em pay for it.

  • bigbabybilly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    1 month ago

    That place is becoming more and more of a shithole. Bots, Ads, trolls, garbage mods… deleted the app last month.

    • espentan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      I quit reddit, cold turkey, the day they shut off free API access for 3rd parties. Except for a couple of fairly niche subs I haven’t missed it at all.

  • HexesofVexes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 month ago

    Oh no, someone might not be paying them for their user generated content (!)

    To be fair, it’s probably best that history forgets this period of the web…

  • phantomwise@lemmy.mlEnglish
    211·
    1 month ago

    Nice of them to protect their (users’) content from AI scrapping. So that they can charge AI companies for it instead.

    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      105·
      1 month ago

      They aren’t doing that. They are protecting content from being scraped for free. Reddit is perfectly happy to charge for AI access to user-generated content.

      • ebolapie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        No, that’s not what’s happening. They’re preventing scrapers from accessing the content at no charge. They’re totally willing to make deals for access to their content in exchange for money.

        • GunValkyrie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 month ago

          Almost, but they are really making it so they can charge ai companies for user data and not allow scrappers to get the data for free.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    OK, I stopped posting on Reddit but left my account and comments in place because I considered them part of the public record. If Reddit is taking that record private, it’s time for me to start removing my content from the platform.

    Does anyone know if historical Reddit content will remain in IA? If not, I’m going to have to back up years of content somewhere else.

        • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
          42·
          1 month ago

          And you think reddit actually deletes it? Risk data loss? All that valuable data? No way. They might shadow delete it, but it’s there forever.

    • ludicolo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      There are some browser extensions that will edit your comments and make them each a random a bunch of random words. I do not know how effective they are so I cannot vouch for them.

      I know that if you tried to just delete the comment, the information would still be there but the username is deleted. Which is frustrating, I didn’t know that until I had already deleted every post and comment, went back to make sure the job was done. It wasn’t. I just came to terms that at least I wasn’t contributing to their hub of knowledge anymore.