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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Maybe spez is intentionally destroying Reddit. Because all their moves are illogical. It doesn't make sense.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Nah, he's just fucking stupid and out of touch how his platform and internet works. He wanted to make profit on companies scraping data for ai's and move people to official app with ton of apps before IPO but he didn't expect to people retaliate that much. Now because users were stupid enough to make strike only 48 hours long he decided to wait it out and he was correct, it worked for him and users are giving up with the strike. At least there are still subreddits that strike but it's nothing compared to first 2 days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What money is there to make off of language model AIs? They've been using reddit comments/interactions for a long time now. They're too late.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm wondering the same, language models have been on the training for years, they already have all the reddit data they want, why would anyone spend a lot of money now for something they already have?

Unless there's something new we're not yet aware of, I don't see how "scraping AI" is a valid reason for what spez is doing.

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