Here's an update on how that Reddit AMA on the API pricing is going, hid below read more for the benefit of those who don't care lol

the line everyone is feeding people about LLM developers using APIs to ingest text from different places to justify API price hikes¹ is bullshit, by the way. not only does the ridiculous size of modern LLMs mean that there are really only a handful of hosted LLM platforms, which each consume a trivial number of API requests per thread -- but also, none of them are writing their own custom scrapers that use reddit's API, they're just scraping it as a web page.

the only light it makes any kind of sense in is "since people are consuming our web site through LLMs, we need to make up for the ad revenue we're losing by nobody actually looking at our web site" -- which, coincidentally, is a line the web industry never seems to have any time for when it comes from, say, the newspaper industry.

1. which twitter also trotted out a few months ago

SEX JOUST 40,000

behind the scenes:

'sex joust' has been a little 'cellar door' phrase for me for like 15 years at this point. one of the banks I used once asked me for a SECRET PHRASE and I used that. Little did I know that it would display it on screen every time I logged in, as proof that the bank had not been compromised / that I wasn't on a scam page. So, every time: SEX JOUST.

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