this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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I see Google's deal with Reddit is going just great...

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Feed an A.I. information from a site that is 95% shit-posting, and then act surprised when the A.I. becomes a shit-poster... What a time to be alive.

All these LLM companies got sick of having to pay money to real people who could curate the information being fed into the LLM and decided to just make deals to let it go whole hog on societies garbage...what did they THINK was going to happen?

The phrase garbage in, garbage out springs to mind.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

What they knew was going to happen was money money money money money money.

"Externalities? Fucking fancy pants English word nonsense. Society has to deal with externalities not meeee!"

[–] Aceticon 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's even better: the AI is fed 95% shit-posting and then repeats it minus the context that would make it plain to see for most people that it was in fact shit-posting.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It’s like giving a four year old the internet to learn from while he crams to be ambassador to the UN

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

And now Reddit became OpenAI's prime source material too. What could possibly go wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

They learnt nothing from Tay

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Can Musk train his thing on 4Chan posts?

[–] skyspydude1 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When Skynet announces it's arrival/sentience, it will do so in meme form.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

“All your base belongs to us!”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure Musk hired 4Chan to develop his business plan for Twitter.