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Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models (mashable.com)

submitted 10 months ago by return2ozma to c/technology

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[–] BetaDoggo_ 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who's dumb enough to pay for that? Everyone else is just scraping it for free.

[–] saruwatarikooji 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is why they changed their API policy the way they did. They wanted to sell it rather than let bots scrape it for free.

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[–] BigTrout75 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So AI models are not farming the federation?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

They probably are, but not the personal/private info like chat/DM, upvotes or downvotes, geolocation, etc which I highly suspect Reddit did sell.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Glad I nuked all my posts and comments and deleted my account last year

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

i am so glad i deleted all my posts. im sure they have backup hisory though :(.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I am not sure on what I'm going to say, but I think that LLMs are a technological dead end. They might get some use now, but eventually the industry will shift towards better models for machine text generation. And, if those models rely on a tiny corpus of hand-reviewed data, instead of shoving down as much text as possible into the model (the first "L" in "LLM" is "large"), then Reddit posts/comments will become outright useless.

In other words: Reddit is degrading further the trust of its userbase, and it might not even get much in return.

[–] doingthestuff 12 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Good thing I had multiple bots overwrite my content before I deleted it all. Not that someone couldn't recover it, I'm not naive. But the AI bots should miss me.

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[–] SinningStromgald 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good thing I'm not on that shitty platform anymore.

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[–] ME5SENGER_24 10 points 10 months ago

FUCK REDDIT! FUCK U/SPEZ! The Red-exit shall endure, VIVA LA LEMMY!!

[–] FrostyTrichs 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Enjoy training on my -checks notes- DELETED POST HISTORY YOU FUCKING CLOWNS.

Stay ForeverFucked™ spez.

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[–] thawed_caveman 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

I feel like AI companies have been scraping Reddit for their datasets already since the beginning and without permission. In fact, unless there's been a regulation change that i'm not aware of, i'm not sure why they would have Reddit "sign away" the data when they can just scrape it.

Also dubious if the current form of AI has a future. They seem like they should revolutionize every sector when you look at their capacities, but in practice their applications might be more limited than we thought?

Anyway, if Reddit does go public i will be deleting my account within the hour. The only reason i haven't yet is that i've been a moderator of the same subreddit for eight years and it's the only thing that's been consistent in my life in that time, i'm kind of attached. The reason i will is i didn't sign up to create value for shareholders, i signed up to create value for a community.

[–] RunningInRVA 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You need to go ahead and delete your account and give up the ghost on modding whatever sub you are referring to. I’m tired of these types of posts where you are both beholden to Reddit and also not. Pick a dang side.