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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why does it sound like reddit trained AI will only get dumber.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

That would explain why GPT is often so confidently incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So AI models are not farming the federation?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

Stay ForeverFucked™ spez.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At this point I wouldn't trust Reddit to actually delete posts. Just hide them then sell them as training data if the upvotes are decent.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year 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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

"Its content", sure.

[–] imposedsensation 8 points 1 year ago

Is this why the privacy policy was updated?

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