All quotes
“The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable, but we don't need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
— Steve Huffman, Reddit co-founder and CEO2023-04-18
- Speaker
- Steve Huffman
- Role
- Reddit co-founder and CEO
- Date
- 2023-04-18
- Type
- exec
Context
Told to The New York Times on April 18, 2023, announcing Reddit would begin charging for API access amid the rise of AI companies scraping its data — the statement that set up the API blackout and Reddit's later AI-licensing deals.