Crowdsourcing

As you logged on to Reddit this morning for your daily browse of news and memes, you may have been greeted by a glaring inconvenience on the pages for most of your favorite communities. Beginning today, hundreds of subreddits across the social network are protesting recent changes Reddit has made to its API. The forums have been set to private, invisible to nearly all users, and will remain that way for at least the next two days.Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIIn April, Reddit announced…

Reddit is in for a rude awakening, just ask some of its most popular subreddits. To protest Reddit’s recent plan to charge for access to its API, some of the platform’s biggest communities will be going dark for at least two days.In April, Reddit announced that it would be charging companies for access to its application programming interface (API), much the way Twitter opted to when Elon Musk realized he wasn’t making enoughmoney. While Reddit said that the decision was to keep companies like Google and OpenAI from…

The United States Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal to a lawsuit attempting to hold Reddit liable for allegedly letting sexually explicit images of minors run amok on its site. Tuesday’s decision marks the third time in less than a month the court has danced around high-profile cases that could open Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—tech companies’ top liability shield—up to new scrutiny. By declining to hear the case, SCOTUS left in place a lower court ruling which said Reddit cannot be held liable for…

Image: Ink Drop (Shutterstock)Reddit execs have noticed that everyone is getting rich off of AI but them. The company announced on Tuesday that it will start charging businesses for using its application programming interface (API) which allows users to download and process data from person-to-person conversations. as it plans to go public on Wall Street later this year.Chat GPT-4 Worth the Upgrade? | Future TechThe company says large tech companies like Google or OpenAI will no longer be able to use its API to train…

Reddit’s popular short story Purgatory Games is on the docket to receive its own film, reports Deadline.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning HeroesRevealed ahead of the weekend, Sam Haysom’s 2020 short story has been optioned for a film. Originally published on the NoSleep subreddit, the story proper concerns a narrator who receives a USB drive that has footage of six people trapped in an underground bunker. To get out, those captives have to comply with the individual rules their…

“The OpenAI Bug Bounty Program is a way for us to recognize and reward the valuable insights of security researchers who contribute to keeping our technology and company secure,” the company wrote on its website. Image: Tada Images (Shutterstock)OpenAI—parent company of the ever popular and powerful ChatGPT—has announced a pretty sweet deal for amateur programmers called the Bug Bounty Program. In exchange for finding bugs in OpenAI’s software, the company is willing to hand out anywhere from $200 to $20,000.Netflix…

Reddit released its 2022 transparency report Wednesday, showing how the site has been laying on the “ban” button hard after the company started a crackdown on non-consensual intimate media (NCIM) after a rules change in March of last year. These instances of NCIM include any kind of intimate image posted without consent or a person’s awareness, such as revenge porn, voyeurism, or an “accidental nip-slip moment.”Google’s Antitrust Case Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to AIReddit had previously banned any kind of porn…

ChatGPT remains the most popular online AI chatbot, but it’s also a closed environment where the company has access to your chats.Image: Leon Neal (Getty Images)ChatGPT users reported a strange bug letting them see the chat history titles of other users. It’s just another quirk of the closed environment of OpenAI’s super-popular AI chatbot and sets another grim reminder that despite what you might think, other people, especially the company itself, has access to what you send to your friendly neighborhood chatbot.On…

The self-proclaimed “Apes” over at r/Superstonk, the main subreddit dedicated to discussions about GameStop stock, flooded the comments section on South Korean artist PSY’s 2012 superhit “Gangnum Style” on Tuesday. They were not there because they were PSY fans—although I’m sure some do like the song—they were because Reddit was down, and this was all part of the plan.PSY - GANGNAM STYLE(강남스타일) M/VReddit experienced a roughly five-hour outage on Tuesday, according to online disruption tracker Downdetector, which left the…

Image: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images)Reddit users started complaining about major outages at around 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday. The complaints first started rolling in at about 2:45 p.m. with only 11 people reporting outages, but by 3:30 p.m., that number rose to more than 49,000.Roughly 52% of the complaints report a recurring problem with the app, while 35% complain of outages on the website, and 14% say they are receiving a server error.On Twitter, Reddit said that it has identified “an internal systems issue” and is working…