The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I., through which outside entities can download and process the social network’s vast selection of person-to-person conversations. “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,” Steve Huffman, founder and chief executive of Reddit, said. “But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”
Source: Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems