“Yea I’m not buying. But I will be watching it tank.”

These are very common things for CEOs to say because if they give assurances and it doesn’t happen they get in trouble with the FTC.

If you see how often Reddit comes up in search results, you will understand the value of the data. Potentially the most valuable single source of information on the internet.

Of course, all of that means nothing as long as AI companies are allowed to suck up and regurgitate any publicly available info on the web for profit.

Having data means nothing if you can’t monetize it.

As you say, AI can already access it all completely for free with nothing more complicated than a web crawler. Long term, charging AI firms for access is not a viable strategy unless the law changes.

And they’ve been trying for years to monetize visitors through advertising and other schemes, and so far come up consistently short.

Having data means nothing if you can’t monetize it.

They’ve already monetized it.

Lying on an S-1 isn’t an FTC problem; it’s an SEC one.

Yeah that one thanks

Potentially the most valuable single source of information on the internet.

I beg to differ, there’s Wikipedia

I did say “potentially”. Wikipedia has a lot of factual information but no opinions or experiences or troubleshooting.

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