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Okay, what bothers me about this - they're so damn two faced.
Either:
But their wording just says both and it bugs the hell out of me. "Not many users use these, but they're so much of our API that we're just dying under the pressure"
On top of that, they blame AI training. Well, if that were true why not.... classify the users of their API and make tiers of pricing, where 3rd party apps (who serve content directly to users) get to continue using for free/cheap, and users who train AI are charged. There, I solved the problem where everyone is happy, you can make the check out directly to me instead of paying your lawyers.
Makes me think that they want to profit off of AI training but can't meaningfully differentiate between API use for AI and API use for third party apps. Solvable problem of course, but you gotta do the work.
If Reddit really wanted to not target 3rd party apps, they could do it, idk if they can see what kind of app are making the APIs calls, but they could've worked something with the 3rd party app devs, I'm not believing what they say.