APIs for content sites must be free (🔥 Score: 152+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/5GSi2 Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/5GSi2
Not the Hacker News that I’m familiar with.
It’s a Telegram bot that filters top rated articles in news.ycombinator and it links them like that. You can click the ‘comments’ link and see for yourself.
Why not link directly to the hacker news post then? I’m always suspicious about redirect services like that.
Yep, reposts bots are expanding.
@Penguincoder @IcyPractice Mute them and move on. Something i learned on Quora, Mute , Block , Report. not that anyone here uses Quora. Good life lesson though
Why?
I also think it is the greater good to let AIs train for free.
I’m not entirely sure about this. Freely available AI’s, sure, maybe. But corporate closed source AI’s that charge per token? I’m not saying no, but I’d love to hear someone justify the thinking behind why this is “the greater good”.
I am not sure I agree entirely with this, while I do think there should be third party clients, we have entered the age where allowing API access is giving free reign to very valuable LLMs to train on your data, which also IMO violates your users privacy. I think it’s better to have it be gratis but not libre, perhaps some kind of app approval process or some such.
I think it’s possible to have a middle ground, just by putting properly formed license terms like foss projects. Ie. Specify that the AI/bot must be following certain rules(ie, fetch the comments but not the user IDs), because if we don’t provide data for open and free alternative, there will be no good AI tools for common folks. And the top dogs are all hoarding data with sneaky ToS.
I figure its fair to charge for access if you pay the moderators and the contributors.
Seems like they are taking over the moderator roles now, by force. Maybe the mods will also be the main contributors soon?
What is readhacker.news? Why not just use the news.ycombinator link anyway
It’s the way a Telegram bots deliver the links. See response above.
