Great. Now all the AI bots will just be saying "This" and "came here to say that."
this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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Thanks for the gold kind stranger
Well... We all knew that was coming. If you still have an account haven't done so, now's a good time to purge your account!
Unless you live in the EU or California, odds are that just deletes the public data, I’m sure Reddit retains it and would sell it.
Reddit account data has been training AI for over a decade. If you ever used it, you're already in a training set
Better yet, use an overwrite script to help turn their training models to jelly
That will remove your account from public view, but will it remove it from the data they use for AI training?
If not, you’re just enhancing the value of their proprietary data.
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I'd be very surprised if comments weren't versioned in some way, so even if you delete or rewrite that data, it's probably still there and a part of training data.
That's what I just did with my account of 10 years. I had all comments overwritten with gibberish and purged them a few days later. I'll send them a final DSGVO request and delete it afterwards.
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So they're cashing in by selling other people's conversations.
Yeah.
FYI: reddit orphans content. In other words your posts/comments are undeletable.
I found instances of such late last year by way of search results. I clicked a username to see more posts by that account. The only content on their profile page was a final deletion message about the API changes.
Their post history was discoverable by using " site:reddit.com" on Google. All of their posts/comments still show up under their username instead of the normal [deleted]. Clicking the username takes you to their empty profile page.
So what we know from this now is that reddit has been saving original submissions. Whereas before their claim was that only the last edits are stored. Which is why the deletion scipts became a thing. People took it on good faith that we could delete our posts. At some point they stopped doing that. Or perhaps it was all a lie the whole time. Who knows.
What happens if you edit every other post with absolute nonsense sentences? I doubt they have a way to go through that?
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Imagine AI mods trained by reddit mod models.
I would love a GPT model that just replies to every prompt with "Ya'll can't behave."
Y'all need Jesus
"Trained by the sweaty armpit of humanity"
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You know how artists can poison their images for AI... We need a way to poison content on Reddit
I would say most of the content is already poison.
i think that's just called posting on reddit
Shit posts would do it. That'll turn the AIs into morons who spurt out "rizz" and "skibidi" instead of anything useful
There's nothing stopping anyone doing the same with lemmy posts though is there?
NO! There isn’t, lemmy is one giant honeypot.
then call me winnie the pooh
Alt title: Reddit looking to steal value from their millions of free users
Fuck /u/spez
It's a power grab. They'll justify control over the training data with intellectual property which keeps it out of the hands of everyday people but they stole the "intellectual property" from us in the first place. Then they'll control the "means of generation".
This is why I deleted my posts. Also, 60 million is a jokingly lowball figure.
I wonder how reddit users feel about this. I wouldn't know, I DNS blocked the site months ago.
I left my posts up because they will actually cause the website to be worth less.
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This is going to produce the saltiest AI the world has ever seen.
"Hey reddit ai , give me an idea how to balance my budget and pay my student debt, mate". "here ya go, I got a noose for you. Also I'm not your mate, dude".
" Hey reddit ai, draw for me a house with a genz family". Here ya go. " Hey reddit ai, why did you show me a pic of a highway ramp with homeless people?"
what could go wrong with training your ai based on the posts of the most racist and misogynistic people on the internet?
My god they'll create a super redditor
It’s not 4chan… but someone did train one of those once.
Damn Facebook is owned by Reddit now?
That varies by subreddit, which might actually help in training LLMs to recognize the difference.
I so want to see Reddit die. I browsed the site for the first time in 2007. I adored it. Now it is nothing but a cesspool of morons trying to find an echo chamber for their idiocy, led by king of the morons, Spez.
It’s time for better competition in this space and the Fediverse is one step toward that goal.
I stopped posting there the moment they pulled the trigger on the API change. I used to like cruising LinuxQuestions and answering people, too.
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