I thought Reddit and Twitter were pretty clearly responses to the massive data grab by OpenAI that let them train their language models.
I assume there are other factors involved too, like Reddit trying to force everyone to use its app. But I don’t think it’s coincidence this happened not long after ChatGPT took off.
… Though now that you mention it, I wonder if there’s a connection between Netflix stamping out password sharing and Youtube getting serious about ads.
I feel like this is their reaction to the feeling that (1) frontiers are not as wide as they used to be in the younger days of the internet and (2) economic undercurrents driving them to put the clamps on, locking in their user base and trying to squeeze every dime they can before things go tits-up.
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I thought Reddit and Twitter were pretty clearly responses to the massive data grab by OpenAI that let them train their language models.
I assume there are other factors involved too, like Reddit trying to force everyone to use its app. But I don’t think it’s coincidence this happened not long after ChatGPT took off.
… Though now that you mention it, I wonder if there’s a connection between Netflix stamping out password sharing and Youtube getting serious about ads.
I feel like this is their reaction to the feeling that (1) frontiers are not as wide as they used to be in the younger days of the internet and (2) economic undercurrents driving them to put the clamps on, locking in their user base and trying to squeeze every dime they can before things go tits-up.