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Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Fake4000@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

And that’s why I edited+deleted all of mine.

[–] Wolpertinger@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

So I need to run any comments I make to reddit by chatgpt before posting, it seems. I heard ai training ai leads to a poisoned data set.

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[–] Landmammals@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The next move is to use AI to generate posts and comments

[–] bigMouthCommie@kolektiva.social 9 points 9 months ago

spez says that's how he got reddit off the ground in the first place: faking content/engagement (well, genuinely engaging with his account(s?), but essentially shouting into the void and hoping enough people heard and wanted to stick around.

with a RedditUserBot trained on reddit users, you might be able to fake another decade of growth.

[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I honestly think that has been happening with all these publications websites.

[–] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I am willing to bet the most active subreddits that are not too bot infested are the NSFW ones. Reddit AI is going to be creepy and horny.

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

We should have been posting factually incorrect information instead of deleting posts this whole time.

Although I think Reddit does a good job paying factually incorrect information on its own.

[–] Bleach7297@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you aren't the customer, you are the product. Congrats on being monetized and kinda sorta immortalized as a series of weights.

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[–] gapbetweenus@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago

If user content belongs to the service provider, one would think that they are responsible for it.

[–] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

Our collective toilet thoughts are going to fuel the future of robot rhetoric guys

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

That's why spez the hurensohn "refreshed" the T&Cs very recently.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (11 children)

I don’t mind to give my content for AI training. But with my approval and for free.

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[–] Haagel@lemmings.world 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've just deleted my Reddit account. That's the last straw for me.

[–] Fake4000@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Deleting doesn't actually delete it all. I remember a Reddit user once filed a GDPR for restoring his information after he deleted them.

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[–] Nougat@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Before they shut down the APIs, I deleted all my posts and edited all my comments.

Spez doesn’t get to profit from me anymore. And hopefully I’m poisoning the well.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 9 months ago

Just going to replace all my old posts with AI generated poison data.

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