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  • The majority of social media sites (with the exception of youtube imo) don’t provide anything of value. A smart high school kid could write a twitter clone over a weekend. The only thing these websites have to offer is their large user base.
    EDIT: OK, I apparently upset some people. I was exagerating when I said it could be done in a weekend, but my point stands that it’s pretty easy to make a twitter clone/reddit clone, and the challenge in succeeding for twitter is getting a user base. The tech is incredibly easy to build.


  • That doesn’t explain it IMO. That data is already freely available and LLMs don’t need the latest data. So data scraping for AI makes up a miniscule amount of API usage.

    I think it has more to do with inflation. Investors aren’t putting their money into risky tech companies as much, and so these companies (twitter, reddit, etc) have to prove they can be profitable for once, and they probably are going to fail to do this. It does mean we can’t have nice things for free anymore like API access.