Ads are not the only reason, but if you’re still on reddit, you clearly missed the point why reddit became popular.

If I ask an “ai” bot to create an image of batman, it does make sense to be modern or take inspiration from the batman of recent, the same applies to information it provides when asked questions. It makes sense to crawl news and websites with copyrighted footers if the information is relevant.

I do totally get their argument and think of the children angle. Getting to the point, it’s all about the money, nothing to do with protecting peoples work. They want a cut of the profits these companies will make.

In that case so should open licences demand that they do not make profit from such content. In that case I believe the free AI will be much more useful, if of course people be aggressive back with this tit for tat.

Trtworld, can someone give more information?

Let me guess, Google didn’t follow on one of the US’s demands, now they’re being targetted.

Iran, such a innocent country, the regime, victims of the evil west…

When I read the title I just imagined how society there is stuck in the medieval ages… just a sad state of affairs…

As others have mentioned, others get far worse, being hung from cranes on a daily bases, most of them Kurds for seeking their freedoms.

This. Current title is misleading.

Sounds nice, can you tell me what they are exactly?

We often blame large companies for being oblivious to what their audience really wants; this is a large company trying to test the waters to better understand and produce what their audience really wants.

That’s not what they’re doing and that’s not what is happening. You’ve not even read the comments or done your research before just blurting out “we often blame”. People don’t want the subscription service, in fact more paywall options seem to be being introduced.

Not against that. But different to what’s happening here though.

Oops, corrected, thanks. Was thinking half a million, ended up typing 500 and then a million.

Maybe ironically with the prices dropping on these people will actually buy them…

Sad really, but the issue, as someone as mentioned already is they were too expensive.