No, and I don’t give a shit about them or app developers. Sorry, i know I am supposed to fIGhT ThE PoWeR or something, but couldn’t care less. Fed up of reading about it, in fact I’ll probably stop using beehaw because that’s all there is to read - reddit this reddit that. BORING

I disagree, it’s still too early and a bit presumptuous to make such conclusive statements

Getty is already suing the Dall-E creators, and someone is suing MS for Copilot; so it’s already started

I am sorry but you don’t know what you are talking about. These things are regulated by legal documents, you don’t just wake up on morning and say “trust me bro, their data is public”

If you go and read their TnC’s it explicitly statea that scraping is forbidden without prioir written consent. They only allow access to their data via APIs, which of course they charge for

The fact that it can be easily scraped it’s neither here nor there, if they catch you they can sue you

Technically not (well, they can make it harder), but they can sue them for doing it

Oh I’m not saying they are doing the right thing or that it was the correct decision. Just speculating whether LLMs is what kicked off the whole thing

I’ve yet to run into any of these individuals.

…you wrote, only half an hour earlier 😉

I mean I like the lemmy-verse, but the main devs behind Lemmy are totally tankies. It’s the reason why a lot of people are hesitant in joining

This is the main developer (one of the only two developers) - if the avatar wasn’t enough, have a look at the “essays” repo in his account… https://github.com/dessalines

Yeah, one of the other answers to the AMA was “we are not profitable yet, unlike the 3rd part app devs…” - that is something that wouldn’t sit well with any investor I know

I think this is “normal” and the previous status was a glitch due to the low interest rates. Investors threw money at tech companies and didn’t care whether they made any money. Not any more. It’s now “make money or go bust”. I am not sayiny these new trends will make them money, but IMHO it’s what’s driving them