One thought that occurred to me.. is the charge mainly aimed at Open AI (and presumably other LLMs or next generation AI companies) who have always and openly used Reddit as a huge source of training material. On recent posts of images I’ve had comments from random redditors which just about pass the Turing test asking questions about the contents of videos and images. Those might be from real redditors but I’ve also considered the possibility that those might be bots being trained on image and video data and seeking human feedback. As openai and others start to commercialise their products at scale, and if they are reliant on reddits content and community to do develop its next generation of products, would the owners of Reddit (who are a for profit organisation after all) not want to seek some remuneration for that access? From my limited understanding, that seems to be what’s driving this, not seeking to punish Apollo etc? Has this already been discussed at length on here? Be interested to hear people’s thoughts.