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    Great. Now all the AI bots will just be saying “This” and “came here to say that.”

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    Well… We all knew that was coming. If you still have an account haven’t done so, now’s a good time to purge your account!

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      Unless you live in the EU or California, odds are that just deletes the public data, I’m sure Reddit retains it and would sell it.

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      Reddit account data has been training AI for over a decade. If you ever used it, you’re already in a training set

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      That will remove your account from public view, but will it remove it from the data they use for AI training?

      If not, you’re just enhancing the value of their proprietary data.

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      Better yet, use an overwrite script to help turn their training models to jelly

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      I’d be very surprised if comments weren’t versioned in some way, so even if you delete or rewrite that data, it’s probably still there and a part of training data.

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      That’s what I just did with my account of 10 years. I had all comments overwritten with gibberish and purged them a few days later. I’ll send them a final DSGVO request and delete it afterwards.

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      Done it a few months ago but then again if I was working at reddit and in charge of preparing the dataset to feed to the llm, I’d give it access to both a recent one and a snapshot from before July 2023 (or whenever shit hit the fan and we all came to lemmy), most edits would have been made in protest. And AI can figure out which ones by itself

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        Even if it’s just another scheme to further concentrate wealth (and it is at least that), that harms everyone but the 0.1%.

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          I draw plenty of benefit from AI tools. There are open source models that anyone can run.

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              My original question remains unanswered. “It may help someone I don’t like because they are richer than me” is a pretty weak concept of “harm.”

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                That argument is a very short (not very detailed) way of surmising the current issue with our world as a whole.

                Don’t like how cars have taken over the world, are the reason cities are hard to live in for low income families, and cause massive amount of climate damage? You can thank the 1% for that.

                Frustrated with how you don’t really own anything, your digital “property” can be taken away from you at a moments notice, and that everything you enjoy gets stuffed with schemes to make more money off of vulnerable people? You can thank the 1% for that.

                Angered that health care costs truly absurd amounts, that medicine is sold to the consumer with a 10,000% mark up, or that a single accident that was not their fault could land someone in debt for life? You can thank the 1% for that.

                A disturbing amount of things that are not good for our planet, keep the poor people poor, and generate inferior products/experiences is directly because of the insane power that the rich hold over our worlds systems.

                “It helps someone I don’t like because they are richer than me” is actually a wonderful definition of harm.

                Reddit used to be an amazing place of community and content that you couldn’t find anywhere on the internet. Then in the pursuit of money and the power that the 1% have Reddit (the company) started implementing practices that actively made the experience worse for the user, violated a person’s ownership of their content, and removed choice just like authoritative/dictatorship governments do.

                It feels to most people that there is nearly nothing that can be done about it. So when a person has the opportunity to directly go against the rich caste in our world they will take that opportunity immediately.

                I recommend taking a hard look at the things that concern you with our world, or cause you pain/annoyance/discomfort and try and learn WHY the issue is the way it is. The majority of the time is because some rich person/group of people (I’m looking at you lobby groups) has an obscene amount of power compared to all of the people affected.

                Lastly there is a reason that “Tax the rich/Eat the rich” is the rally cry of generations.

                It’s because the rich cause us harm.

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    You know how artists can poison their images for AI… We need a way to poison content on Reddit

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    Just think, in 1000 years your body will be long dead but you’ll be forced to live on as a poster! Death is not an option. 😌

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    what could go wrong with training your ai based on the posts of the most racist and misogynistic people on the internet?

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    FYI: reddit orphans content. In other words your posts/comments are undeletable.

    I found instances of such late last year by way of search results. I clicked a username to see more posts by that account. The only content on their profile page was a final deletion message about the API changes.

    Their post history was discoverable by using “<username> site:reddit.com” on Google. All of their posts/comments still show up under their username instead of the normal [deleted]. Clicking the username takes you to their empty profile page.

    So what we know from this now is that reddit has been saving original submissions. Whereas before their claim was that only the last edits are stored. Which is why the deletion scipts became a thing. People took it on good faith that we could delete our posts. At some point they stopped doing that. Or perhaps it was all a lie the whole time. Who knows.

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      No, that’s Google keeping the content of the pages they scraped at the time they scraped them.

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      This is how I cleaned (most) of my old posts: Searched them via Google. As they’re posted under my username I was able to change them into nonsense before deleting then. Even though they never appeared under my profile anymore.

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      What happens if you edit every other post with absolute nonsense sentences? I doubt they have a way to go through that?

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    This is going to produce the saltiest AI the world has ever seen.

    “Hey reddit ai , give me an idea how to balance my budget and pay my student debt, mate”. “here ya go, I got a noose for you. Also I’m not your mate, dude”.

    " Hey reddit ai, draw for me a house with a genz family". Here ya go. " Hey reddit ai, why did you show me a pic of a highway ramp with homeless people?"

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    I stopped posting there the moment they pulled the trigger on the API change. I used to like cruising LinuxQuestions and answering people, too.

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    Alt title: Reddit looking to steal value from their millions of free users