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Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by simianwords »

bilekas wrote: post #314

It might be some confirmation bias here on my part but it feels as if companies are becoming more and more hostile to their API users. Recently Spotify basically nuked their API with zero urgency to fix it, redit has a whole convoluted npm package your obliged to use to create a bot, Facebook requires you to provide registered company and tax details even for development with some permissions. Am I just old man screa…

I’m predicting that there would be a new movement to make everything an MCP. It’s now easier to consume an api by non technical people.

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Post by mamami »

bilekas wrote: post #314

It might be some confirmation bias here on my part but it feels as if companies are becoming more and more hostile to their API users. Recently Spotify basically nuked their API with zero urgency to fix it, redit has a whole convoluted npm package your obliged to use to create a bot, Facebook requires you to provide registered company and tax details even for development with some permissions. Am I just old man screa…

I don't it's particularly hard to figure it out: APIs have been particularly at risk of being exploited for negative purposes due the explosion of AI powered bots

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Post by 3D30497420 »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #326
bilekas wrote: post #314

It might be some confirmation bias here on my part but it feels as if companies are becoming more and more hostile to their API users. Recently Spotify basically nuked their API with zero urgency to fix it, redit has a whole convoluted npm package your obliged to use to create a bot, Facebook requires you to provide registered company and tax details even for development with some permissions. Am I just old man screa…

Can you sell ads via api? If answer is no then this “feature” would be at the bottom of the list

Plus, use of the API is a way to avoid ads. So double-strike against good/available APIs.

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Post by ramon156 »

This month was the first month i spent >$100 on it and it didn't feel like it was money well spent. I feel borderline scammed.

I'm just going to accept that my €15 (which with vat becomes €21) is just enough usage to automate some boring tasks.

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Post by prinny_ »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #326
bilekas wrote: post #314

It might be some confirmation bias here on my part but it feels as if companies are becoming more and more hostile to their API users. Recently Spotify basically nuked their API with zero urgency to fix it, redit has a whole convoluted npm package your obliged to use to create a bot, Facebook requires you to provide registered company and tax details even for development with some permissions. Am I just old man screa…

Can you sell ads via api? If answer is no then this “feature” would be at the bottom of the list

There is a world where approaches like HTTP 402 are implemented to monetize API usage.

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Post by Argonaut998 »

solresol wrote: post #49

I got banned for violating terms of use apparently, but I'm mystified as to what I rule I broke, and appealing just vanishes into the ether.

Two accounts of mine were banned for some reason and my sub was refunded. Literally from just inane conversations. Conversations also disappear and break randomly, but this happens on ChatGPT too sometimes

Re: Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use

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Post by bambax »

curtisblaine wrote: post #321
bambax wrote: post #267

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unstoppable monopoly will be extremely hard to pull off given the number of quality open (weights) alternatives. I only use LLMs through OpenRouter and switch somewhat randomly between frontier models; they each have some amount of personality but I wouldn't mind much if half of them disappeared overnight, as long as the other half remained available.

They will [try to] ban open weights for ethics / security reasons: to stop spammers, to protect children, to stop fascism, to defend minorities. Take your pick; it won't matter why, it will only matter which media case can they thrust in the spotlight first.

Yes of course they will; the CEO of Anthropic makes that argument, very openly, all the time. But it will be hard to do, I think.

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Post by marcus_holmes »

seu wrote: post #330
andreagrandi wrote: post #273

I'm only waiting for OpenAI to provide an equivalet ~100 USD subscription to entirely ditch Claude. Opus has gone down the hill continously in the last week (and before you start flooding with replies, I've been testing opus/codex in parallel for the last week, I've plenty of examples of Claude going off track, then apologising, then saying "now it's all fixed!" and then only fixing part of it, when codex nailed at t…

> Opus has gone down the hill continously in the last week Is a week the whole attention timespan of the late 2020s?

oh shit we're in the late 2020's now
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