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[–] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they actually want to restrict ai training, they also have to restrict search engines. I may be behind the times, but usually those kind of questions have gone to a stack overflow sort of site I would have thought.

[–] ram@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

If they wanted to restrict AI Training they'll need to prevent AI's ability to view the website. Removing the API just removes the low bandwidth low impact manner of gathering the data. Scripts can just as easily HTTP scrape as they can use an API, but that's a lot more resource intensive on Reddit's side. Heck, this is the whole reason free public APIs became a thing in the first place.