Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

  • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
    40·
    2 months ago

    When the internet was new I thought that the spread of knowleege would raise up people’s awareness of things they had not been exposed to under the false assumption that the vast majority of people where reasonable, but uninformed.

    Nope, I was wrong. At best a slight majority are reasonable with varying levels of ignorance and the rest are willfully ignorant.

    • Crismus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      In the early years, I learned a lot of new things. The late 90’s had so much hope for the web and learning new things. I remember falling I to rabbit holes a lot more often back then because it wasn’t about video essays and persuasive videos.

      I miss all of those old text based chatting and the friends I made on Yahoo local chat rooms. Somedays I wish the social media sites run by algorithms didn’t surpass those old forums and chat rooms.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      43·
      2 months ago

      Internet is just a new form of mass media to control the minds of people who aren’t paying attention

      EDIT; Christ, I shouldn’t have had to say this, but obviously not the only thing. I just mean for mass media manipulation its no different than radio or movies. The usage of radio and the distribution of film is still a good thing when done positively. I shouldn’t have to spell shit all the way out like this