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https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/reddit-ceo-on-ai-overviews-were-still-looking-for-that-win-win/

Note this, which you are NOT told about when creating a new account.

Reddit has long had a relatively lucrative ($60 million) licensing deal with Google, but Reddit is considering ending that deal, according to a Wall Street Journal report from earlier this month. The report also said that several prominent publishers are considering similarly cutting ties with Google, including The Economi

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See for yourself. Each of these subs contains (serious?) posts by people (nearly always men) talking about their own exotic cars, and not merely fanboys slobbering over photos of exotic cars. If Aaron Swartz had lived to see this I suspect he would have been horrified.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ferrari/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lamborghini/

https://www.reddit.com/r/AstonMartin/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bentley/

https://www.reddit.com/r/rollsroyce/

[https://www.reddit.com/r/Pagani/](https://www

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If you've used Wayback to look at deleted Reddit material (quite a few people have), that is coming to an end. "AI scraping" is being used as the excuse, but I suspect it is being done because Reddit employees and mods want to censor their history. As usual. And of course, they want additional $$$$ from the AI companies on the side. So they will blackmail everyone who uses Wayback.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit

[https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-internet-is-about-to-get-a-little-worse-as-reddit-moves-to-block-the-internet-archive-so-ai-compa

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https://www.theverge.com/reddit/692481/reddit-20th-anniversary-cto-ai-future

Note: "The initial rollout of AI tools, like Reddit Answers, is “going really well,” CTO Chris Slowe tells The Verge. At a time when Google and its AI tools are going to Reddit for human answers, Reddit is going to its own human answers to power AI features, hoping they’re the key to letting people unlock useful information from its huge trove of posts and communities."

So they're going to train an LLM on Reddit's own often-batshit content. Hell no, that's can't possibly cause any problems!! Our users are the bestest evar, and so are

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