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The era of free, high-quality human training data is over
◆ 75RelevanceOn a story from TechCrunch AI3h ago
This move signals the end of using public social feeds as free infrastructure for AI products. You must re-evaluate any roadmap depending on Reddit data for RAG or fine-tuning, as access now requires formal licensing or expensive partnerships.
Takeaways
- Public data is transitioning from a utility to a licensed asset.
- Audit your pipeline for dependencies on RSS or public API endpoints.
- Prioritize building proprietary datasets to avoid platform-level supply shocks.
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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
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