A LLM that behaves like a typical Redditor?
What possible use is that?
Air Canada offering a refund of tree fiddy.
You’ll get your refund eventually but first it will try and gaslight you that Air Canada is a woke mind virus before calling you an asshole and then stalking you.
“instead of the $3.50 refund, I’m also authorized to offer you some June 2025 $350 GME calls.”
If it’s trained on the average Reddit reply: $420.69, nice.
I just want to mark the occasion when my previous comment is on 69 points. Noice.
A LLM that behaves like a typical Redditor? // What possible use is that?
- [You] “Chatbot, please tell me which pokemon types are strong against Fairy.”
- [Le Lebbit Moronbot] “I’m not sure if I understand, you calling me a chatbot? I’m so confused lol”
- [You] “Moronbot, please tell me which pokemon types are strong against Fairy.”
- [LLM] “Actually, you should be spelling it “Pokémon” lol”
- [You] “Moronbot, which types are strong against Fairy?”
- [LLM] “I assume you talking about fairies. Fairies are from mythology lmao”
- [You] “Did people really waste water and electricity for this trash?”
- [LLM] “Waaah, you’re toxic!!111one”
Marketing to terminally online people maybe?
This is what the 3rd party access to API was really all about.
When API access was allowed , all reddit content was effectively free: They needed to ban 3rd party apps so they could sell the accumulated content. I expect using content to train AI also factors into it.
Reddit is a trove of user built content under the guise of community. What Spez did was to say “thanks for all the free work, suckers!”, put a price sticker on it, and laughed all the way to the bank.
And this is why I’m not active on any Internet community anymore.Nevermind, I guess I just can’t help myself…And this is why I’m not active on any Internet community anymore,
you typed.
Active as in “creating meaningful contributions and contributing to the overall knowledge base”. I still shit post from time to time.
This is going to be a really weird thing to argue, but I just casually read through a bunch of your comments and they seem like meaningful contributions.
Well, I guess I can’t help myself… I’ll shitpost more from now on 😅
Somebody asked chat GPT to appear to be a normal internet user to populate the comments section to manufacture content for normal Internet users to respond to so that they can continue building up their training models.
You couldn’t see the sarcasm because it was set to “hidden”.
And that is another unintended example of why all of my post history was purged before migration.
What are they odds that they kept it in a backup?
Some 4chan users created a backup bot that auto saves every few hours, so if reddit didn’t do it already, 4chan has been doing it for a while. The bot was originally made for 4chan but repurposed for other websites, reddit included.
Yeah, it’s all too late. Shit, PRISM was 2007, so there’s a copy of everything somewhere. Obviously different ends.
Spez like people are even capable of leeching archive.org and still sell the data which was archived for good intentions.
Welcome to the club.
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Considering some of the very wrong and upvoted domain specific knowledge I’ve seen on Reddit over the years I’m not sure the training data is going to be useful for much beyond what every other model can do.
The legal advice in /r/legaladvice was some of the worst garbage I’ve ever seen. I have zero doubt numerous had bad outcomes, at best wasting money and time, at worst spending years in jail because of things that sub told them to say and do. Zero doubt.
That sub was mostly cops just repeating their own bad interpretation of the law. Terrible.
lol subreddits with troll names like trees vs marijuana enthusiasts. Good fun. John cena has one also but can’t recall which subreddit is actually about John cena though.
Potato salad
I can only assume they are training some specific model for something appearing more human like.
As useless as that will be considering how fucking wildly different we type
This is why I don’t blame anyone for editing/deleting their post history on reddit.
Their content?
I wouldn’t be surprised if comments become their intellectual property through some terms of services bullcrap
The AI:
"IANAL so could you ELI5, so AITA?
THIS."
Ann frankly, I did Nazi that coming.
I wish spez had a soul so it could leave his body when sexual assault questions eventually yield the phrase “snuggle struggle.”
It’s gonna be trained on everything, even the stuff from 2009, so I’m expecting less of that and more random ‘my fedora chortles intensify’ word salad
Reddit is all bots, porn, ads and political shit posts. Good luck getting any useful training content out of that.
Maybe that’s the point? Training the AI to produce the blabbering bullshit that’s preferred in social media?
They don’t care if the AI produced is useful, they just want to milk as much money from their content as they can.
The API changes were almost certainly just the groundwork for this and I called it at the time. The ridiculous pricing model for API access is because it’s aimed at the hottest tech companies, not third party app developers.
The enshittification continues because it’s what neoliberalism demands. They’ll sell your content and the data they have about you and still show you ads, because that’s the most profitable. Ethics and product quality don’t even enter into it.
Liberal market gives end users choice. If they don’t choose, they get the consequences.
This is more like people choosing Trump like types and complaining. Alternative exists, choose it.
“The free market can fix it” is just another neoliberal lie, pushed precisely because it doesn’t work. Rather than holding corporations accountable, it blames the population instead.
The reality is that boycotting businesses isn’t always an option and when it is, it’s usually a luxury. Very few products are domestically and/or ethically produced and when they are, they’re extremely expensive, especially for people being fucked out of every cent by their bosses, landlords and utilities.
It’s why the most hated companies in the world continue to bring in record profits.
Regulations are the real answer, which is why neoliberals oppose them.
I really don’t care about people who behave like they are living in North Korea or who wants a North Korean World to live in.
Even Digg people could say “No, F you” to Digg superstar owners. It is just a damn URL to type.
I wish it would die, because honestly some of the porn was great and Lemmy seems to be the one place on the net that doesn’t specifically ban porn, yet has none of it anyway.
I miss bodyswap and part tf captions…
“Reddit has given access to YOUR conversations and posts to AI companies.”. FTFY
These were created by people, for peoole, and I will ALWAYS disagree that this data is Reddit’s or any other platforms.
Don’t forget your direct messages aren’t end to end encrypted on Reddit, so now AI will be trained on your craziest “private” conversations
There’s one good news. Reddit didn’t want to pay to move all the old DMs to the new chat infrastructure. So they deleted them.
Pretty sure they just didn’t migrate to the new data structure and didn’t actually delete the raw data. They’re effectively deleted for users but not for Reddit.
now AI will be trained on your craziest “private” conversations
I have no idea what horrible thing this will do to an LLM but I’m kind of curious.
Oh no, all the times I sent or received dodo codes from randos so we could trade animal crossing items. Whatever shall I do?
Edit: I’m gonna leave this here for people to use as a resource against Reddit because it may be worth it to do something actionable.
https://thomashunter.name/posts/2023-06-19-how-to-delete-reddit-account-gdpr-ccpa
Well to be fair, everything you post and comment on Lemmy can be used in the exact same way
With reddits severe bot problem, it’ll be like training on unfiltered sewage. Garbage in, garbage out.
Machines training machines? How perverse!
Damn it. I haven’t deleted my account due to how many people I’ve supported and helped, I stopped using it while ago. It seems I’ll have to.
I wouldn’t bother. They’ll just mark all your stuff DELETED=1 and feed it to their AI anyway.
That’s not a bad idea.
Good thing I scrubbed all of my posts and comments that I could. Fuck that site, straight up and down.
Instead of scrubbing, wordbomb them to screw up any AI training
Oh my sweet summer child
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Where’s my cut?
You signed it all away the moment you scrolled down that EULA 😂
Oh, is that what those things do?
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Funny, I thought that is what the unblockable ads were for.
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No it didn’t.
*laughs villainously* This is all going to plan, now there will be some chatbot spewing my insane beliefs
Good. Maybe when it cogitates the things I’ve written it might start offering up some better ideas.
