Steve Purcell on Nostr: I suspect the introduction of extremely high API fees for Twitter and (soon) Reddit ...
I suspect the introduction of extremely high API fees for Twitter and (soon) Reddit is largely to make it prohibitively expensive for other people to train LLMs on the data. If it was about capturing ad revenue, the fees would be more modest.
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