They just want to know which accounts are permitted to scrape them for textual LLM training material (because Reddit Inc has a contract with them) vs which ones are not permitted.
The byproduct of this is intensifying a cult like environment where its easier to gaslight people, but that’s ancillary.
Even being able to better drown the user base in more, and more specifically targetted ads, even that ain’t the main thing. Everybody in the online advertising world knows that the actual metrics that ‘describe’ how effective ads are… are largely bullshit, and theyre only going to become more bullshit as more LLM bots are spun up and the average person just has less money.
Its enshittification 101, when user base growth phase stops/plateaus, lock in the user base, squeeze harder and harder untill there just isn’t any money left.
The main thing is maximize profit, ie wealth extraction.
They just want to know which accounts are permitted to scrape them for textual LLM training material (because Reddit Inc has a contract with them) vs which ones are not permitted.
The byproduct of this is intensifying a cult like environment where its easier to gaslight people, but that’s ancillary.
Even being able to better drown the user base in more, and more specifically targetted ads, even that ain’t the main thing. Everybody in the online advertising world knows that the actual metrics that ‘describe’ how effective ads are… are largely bullshit, and theyre only going to become more bullshit as more LLM bots are spun up and the average person just has less money.
Its enshittification 101, when user base growth phase stops/plateaus, lock in the user base, squeeze harder and harder untill there just isn’t any money left.
The main thing is maximize profit, ie wealth extraction.