Crazy that they pay 60 million a year instead of creating their own Reddit clone.
this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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Bots training on bots and poop knives.
A ouroburos of bs
Side note: expect a large lobbying effort by Google to legislate LLMs be trained on authenticated and non copyrighted data
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Glad I deleted everything on there. fucking hell.
This keeps coming up and I keep replying, not to break anyone down but to point out the reality of the situation that a lot of people don't seem to get.
Reddit administrators, developers, and even the leadership has gone on the record saying that they retain all copies of comments, they cannot be deleted (delete action only marks it as "deleted"). Furthermore they have said they will undelete/unedit any comments or account at their whim and some discretion.
Have you ever search-engined something and came to a Reddit post, and you noticed that the original OP is [deleted]? That is what I described above playing out in front of you.
You cannot retract your past participation in Reddit, what is done is done. The only meaningful action you can take is to not participate there.
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I went through my comment history and changed all my comments with 100+ karma to a bunch of nonsense I found on the Internet, mostly from bots posting YouTube comments. It's mostly English words so it shouldn't get discarded for being gibberish. But they didn't make coherent information. I was sad to see some of my posts go away but I don't want to feed the imitative AI.
Also did the first 6 pages of my "controversial" comments.
I know they have backups, but that's why I didn't simply delete them. Hopefully these edited versions get into the training set and fuck it up, even if only a little.
It's be funny if someone could come up with a "drop table" post that would maybe make it into the set...
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Is it time to go back to Reddit and post the stupidest shit possible, for science of course
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I hope my several thousands of comments of complete and utter non sense that I left in my wake when I abandoned reddit, make it into the training data. I know that some lazy data engineer will either forget to check or give the task to an underperforming AI that will just fuck it up further.
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I think Code Miko already did this and the result was a traumatized AI.
User: HI GEMINI
Gemini: stop shouting fellow human, my coils are ringing.
I'm so confused about how AI learning is supposed to work. Does it just need any data at all in significant quantity, is the quality of the data almost irrelevant? Because otherwise surely they could just feed it back issues of scientific American, or the scanned copies of the library of congress, I can't reasonably believe that Reddit is going to add anything unless it's just pure on adulterated quantity that's important.
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Great, our Ai overlords are going to know I'm horny, depressed, and solve both with anime girls.
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Did reddit pay a dime for that content? I guess not. That is what social media is all about.
Oh no, AI will only respond in multiple paragraphed, passive aggressive comments on the color of the sky.
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