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Reddit is cracking down on companies indiscriminately scraping the website for AI training purposes.
The site recently changed its robots.txt file to exclude bots and crawlers that didn't have permission to access its data.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said he believes in an open internet but that companies now use search engine web crawlers to scrape information for profit, a far cry from their historical use.
Meanwhile, companies like Reddit and Vox will keep handing them the shovels. Image credit: Jernej Furman .
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