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Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text (theluddite.org)

submitted 8 months ago by theluddite@lemmy.ml to c/luddite@lemmy.ml

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Does Reddit not persist post and comment revision history? If they do-- as a developer imaging myself in charge of such a feature-- I would just use full post and comment revision history for training, directly from the database.

This extension probably feels great, but may accomplish very little.

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They do. After I deleted all my comments, using automatic tools (that replace the text) and manually, they keep recreating them. In fact, this might sound a bit like a conspiracy, but I've noticed all my comments that do come back are the ones that people find coming from Google.

So everything is deleted, then some user searches Google for a solution and my comment was the only one, as soon as they click the post, my comment is back and shows up in my account. The original comment, not even the modified version that should've replaced it.

So 100% Reddit keeps everything.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Then the solution is to continue posting on reddit and poisoning your own post with random nonsense words and hope that does something, I guess.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

setting down the molotov cocktail and lighter oh, we're doing it the "legal" way, apparently

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I would never advocate for anyone to burn down reddit. It's a ridiculous proposal. Nothing would be gained if you were to throw molotov cocktails on the reddit servers.

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Absolutely not. Do not use reddit. Its time has long past.

[–] theluddite@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's always easy to imagine why things won't work, then decide to do nothing. Sometimes just getting your opponent to respond opens new opportunities, while predicting failure such that you don't bother is a guaranteed path to defeat.

Also, just because they kept previous revisions doesn't necessarily make it pointless, because they'd still be using the edit in the training data. And yes, they can probably figure out how to clean that up, but then let's make them do that and see what happens.

edit: Most importantly, shit posting is fun.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah they’ll be able to train a LLM to look out for, and filter out of future training, off-topic, sabotaged posts.