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Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site
Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”
After striking deals with Googleand OpenAI, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is calling on Microsoft and others to pay if they want to continue scraping the site’s data. In the interview, he referenced Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman’s recent comment at a conference that public data on the internet is “freeware.” Huffman pointed to OpenAI’s recent announcement of SearchGPT, which will be able to show Reddit results thanks to a deal both companies reached earlier this year, as the model he wants to replicate.
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