Eccehom@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world · 10 months agoReddit right now listed by popular/hotlemmy.worldimagemessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1243arrow-down128file-text
arrow-up1215arrow-down1imageReddit right now listed by popular/hotlemmy.worldEccehom@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square84fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29arrow-down2·edit-210 months ago Question is a common question people Google for. Potentially AI generates. Post is filled with AI bots answering to inflate user numbers. Post is used by websites to generate new content. Often by AI. AI scrapes reddit post for data, and verified it on those websites. AI ouroboros
minus-squareStarkillerX42@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up12·10 months agoThanks to those API changes, Reddit is AI free!
minus-squarePotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·10 months agoYou don’t need APIs to bot. APIs provide a “official” method and make it easier. You can automate web scrapers and bots without APIs since forever.
minus-squareLetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up2·edit-210 months agoTrue, but it was a selling point of the API changes if I remember correctly. Some insane fanboys attacked everyone with stupid arguments like that one when you were critical of the changes. That drove me away even faster.
Thanks to those API changes, Reddit is AI free!
You don’t need APIs to bot. APIs provide a “official” method and make it easier.
You can automate web scrapers and bots without APIs since forever.
True, but it was a selling point of the API changes if I remember correctly. Some insane fanboys attacked everyone with stupid arguments like that one when you were critical of the changes. That drove me away even faster.