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.
What possible use is that?
I’ve noticed “has this sub gotten more right wing recently?” posts reaching the top post of the day in the last 6 months or so. r/norge and r/unitedkingdom being examples. You can automate bots that change a subreddit’s consensus on certain topics by bot-spamming threads pertaining to those topics, especially in the first hour of a thread going up. I don’t know if that’s happening, or if it has more to do with the Reddit protest that saw mods abdicate their positions last June and new mods being responsible for the change… but it could also be a bit of both.
A redditor bot is a viable example of a forum member bot.
IMO, I don’t think it can drive topics, but it could make things controversial.
Negative examples are often just as useful for training an AI as positive ones. And it all depends on what you want to use the AI for. A moderator bot, for example, needs familiarity with the whole range of user responses it might see.
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”
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.
But almost every answer is the same. “You need to speak to an attorney”.
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
Pretty sure the result will be SchizoGPT
This is why I don’t blame anyone for editing/deleting their post history on reddit.
I do. It’s frankly selfish. Having an AI get training on my old comments costs me nothing and it results in the development of useful AI tools. Trying to sabotage that is petty and pointless. It’s not like you could somehow collect the fraction of a pittance that you think you’re owed retroactively. I never commented on Reddit thinking “awesome, I’m going to make bank on the content I’m generating here.”
People complain about the capitalist mindset of the world and then they do this. Sigh.
Defending giant corporations profiting off of uncompensated individuals, while criticizing anyone who doesn’t want to provide free labor to said corporations, is a disgusting take. Are you a CEO?
Expecting FaceDeer to not glaze AI is like expecting the sun to not rise.
Oh is that what their crusade is? I was wondering why their take was so stupid
The more accessible training data there is the easier it is for new AI projects to enter the field less dominant those “giant corporations” become.
The free labour was already freely given. If someone doesn’t want to have shitposted on Reddit for free then maybe they shouldn’t have shitposted on Reddit for free.
“if you didn’t want me to steal your intellectual property, you shouldn’t have thought of it in the first place”
So, for an example of what the other user was talking about, I’m just some guy and for my first foray inyo programming / machine learning (I kind of just threw myself into the deep end) I modified stylegan 3 and trained it on about 500g of reddit porn that I scraped off reddit.
Now, I stopped the training after about a week (it was going to take about a solid month on my rtx 2080 ti) when I found out stable diffusion existed but I learned a LOT from that experience.
I couldn’t do that now. Arguably none of that was how any of that should be done but whatever.
No, you shouldn’t have posted it to Reddit, in which you were required to give them a perpetual license to use your IP in any way they see fit.
For the record, I’m here because Reddit pissed me off when they axed the free API, and I’m pissed at myself for not expecting it. That’s what I get for accepting their terms and conditions, I guess.
Edit: I also don’t accept the idea that using my content for training data is “fair use” when it is used to train proprietary models, especially ones in which the end user is allowed to prompt it to plagiarize or otherwise imitate my content.
I’m not sure what you mean here. Nothing’s being stolen. Even if you think there needs to be permission for training an AI off of data, Reddit has that permission.
I assume you’re more of a moron than a troll, which is disappointing. Regardless, you’re not worth my time, as I don’t think any argument could convince you to have an open mind and be willing to change. Good luck out there!
Selfish? Perhaps you forget why people deleted their content in the first place.
What do you think this thread is about?
I had an 11 year old account that I deleted all my old comments and posts from because of the API debacle. Does that make me selfish that I felt like Reddit wasn’t holding up its end of the unwritten agreement?
Reddit doesn’t deserve my content anymore than I deserve access from the third party API.
If you did it over the API debacle then you’re not one of the people I’m talking about here. This is about people deleting their content to prevent it from being used to train AIs.
Do you not remember the real reason why the API debacle happened in the first place was to prepare for this moment? It was always about easy access to training data, third party apps got caught in the crossfire.
That’s ignoring an awful lot of other considerations. Obviously Reddit hasn’t explained itself in a trustworthy way, but a common belief at the time is that it was to force people to use the official Reddit mobile app so they could be subject to advertising.
Boot licker.
deleted by creator
That spells out what they were doing. It doesn’t explain why they were doing it.
It’s their comment to do with as they see fit. I can’t get mad at them for wanting to erase their presence on a site they don’t use anymore.
And I’m free to judge them however I wish for their actions and intent.
How is not wanting capitalist companies to profit off of your content not aligned with complaining about the capitalist mindset of the world? Wtf lol.
It’s the insistence that everything that people do must be compensated with money. People have spent years posting on Reddit for fun, without any thought to being paid for it, and now all of a sudden someone else is making some money so they’re demanding that they should get their slice. And doing what they can to wreck their earlier efforts when they don’t.
How does Reddit making some money licensing this stuff harm those of us who contributed to it? Is there any problem aside from “I wanna get paid!”?
Why do you think it’s about wanting a slice? They posted on Reddit with no expectation of profit. But they don’t want others to profit off it either. It’s not that complicated.
But they don’t want others to profit off it either.
And that’s why I call them selfish. It doesn’t harm them in the slightest if someone else profits off of it.
For me it’s a privacy matter. Going through old posts (whether human or machine learning) can nor be used for anything good.
What about people who just think “A.I.” Is dog shit and chat bots are a dumb obsession steering the industry in the wrong direction due to hype and money?
What about them? I don’t see why they’d care what AI companies are doing in that case. They’d assume they were just wasting money on this stuff.
Out of all things to hate Reddit for, giving data to AI isn’t something fediverse users can really criticize it for, though making money from it perhaps.
Remember: All data in federated platforms is available for free and likely already being compiled into datasets. Don’t be surprised if this post and its comments end up in GPT5 or 6 training data.After all the hue and cry I have seen over stuff like Threads and Bluesky federation I don’t imagine most people using the Fediverse have a particularly coherent philosophy on the matter.
If they could read right now they would be very upset.
The problem isn’t that AI is being trained on the data. The problem is that they locked down all third party data access so they could monetize our content. On a federated platform, everyone gets equal access and can do whatever they want with it.
We sure can criticize them for that.
If they already, essentially, cut off API access then it’s not a big leap to limit access on the web to logged in users only and rate limit or ban accounts that behave like scrapers.
That would matter more if it wasn’t trivial to make new accounts and very cheap to buy established ones.
No. I can. Reddit was bought out, uses volunteers to control all the subs but forcefully removes you from the sub you created and were supposed to have control over if you didn’t play by their ever-changing rules, ruined/eliminates third party apks by demanding WAY over ad revenue profits to have access to api with a very short notice, and shadow banned anyone and everyone in a position to do anything about any of it. It’s a corporation that gutted an entire platform in order to push agendas they want and milk as much money out of it as possible. Hell, it’s the entire reason all of lemmy gets more than 30 posts a day. So many people switched to lemmy over the past year. They ruined a website I enjoyed and I’d rather them not make more money from the thousands of posts I made from over a decade of being there.
“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.
Well it’s not yours once you post it on some platform, tbf
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.”
Where’s my cut?
You signed it all away the moment you scrolled down that EULA 😂
Can’t wait for the day a major court declares EULAs universally nonbinding outside of the most common-sense terms. Even though I doubt it will ever happen.
“We can store and display your content and use stuff you publicly post as examples in advertisements for our platform” is pretty common sense.
“We can use the things you post to do complex data analytics to package and sell your identity to advertisers” is fucking sus.
“We can use the things you post to train ANN generative systems to build next-generation technologies to impersonate you and your peers” is simply nuts.
The idea that displaying an EULA with an “agree” button is informed consent is just preposterous. Even lawyers don’t read them.
Seems like it would never stand up in court. Prove that -I- agreed to anything. To do that, you first have to prove that nobody has ever created an account under my name, and more importantly, prove that Reddit accounts have never been hacked and that the person who clicked the button was even in my household. And if they keep that extensive of records to where they can follow every action taken by every user on the platform, it also implies that they are tracking my personal actions even before I agreed to anything.
On the other hand, do they actually have a EULA? It’s been almost 14 years since I created my account, and there certainly wasn’t anything about selling my data for AI training when I signed up. If they change the terms of service, they are responsible for notifying everyone, otherwise they can’t claim that anyone agreed to these changes.
I’m sure their lawyers could weasel their way through it some how, but it still seems to come down to them claiming they changed the agreement without notification but the users should still be legally bound by the new terms?
Oh, is that what those things do?
Spez is playing the world’s tiniest violin for you as you read this
The classic “screw everyone else, I want mine.”
What fraction of a penny do you think you’re owed?
What fraction of a penny do you think you’re owed?
250,000,000/1
Hey, you didn’t specify that it couldn’t be an improper fraction and I like money. It’s loophole time baby!
Good luck with that.
Who needs luck when you have math?
It went toward paying for servers so that you could use reddit for free.
Funny, I thought that is what the unblockable ads were for.
That’s also part of it.
But uBlock Origin never seemed to have trouble blocking them.
No it didn’t.
Good. Maybe when it cogitates the things I’ve written it might start offering up some better ideas.
Who’s dumb enough to pay for that? Everyone else is just scraping it for free.
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.
I don’t think it’s going to be public data alone. I think it’s going to be DMs and chats as well. I wondered why Reddit was pushing chats so much suddenly, well it makes sense now.
Yeah. I think there is a kind of power grab under way. Social media will try to push that they own the IP rights to the large texts uses for LLM. This will then require that producers of LLM software aquire the licensing rights which will cost many millions which in turn restricts the free use of LLM and in general any AI software that requires training data.
The end result is that as the “means of production” become less based on human work the “means of generation” and AI will be controlled by the capitalists. If you can turn something into a commodity (like knowledge with patents and IP) you can control it. Leading to a darker timeline.
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.
In before poisoning your comments on Reddit turns into the new protest.
Glad I nuked all my posts and comments and deleted my account last year
Ha. Some time ago they just started reversing it.
It was all backed up publicly on push shift. Still is.
I should have nuked mine. Ugh. https://www.reddit.com/u/return2ozma
Enjoy training on my -checks notes- DELETED POST HISTORY YOU FUCKING CLOWNS.
Stay ForeverFucked™ spez.
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.
Yea, I wish I didn’t delete my posts now and just edited them to point to Lemmy or something.
I did that to my entire post history and got immediately banned by automod from a lot of subreddits lol
FUCK REDDIT! FUCK U/SPEZ! The Red-exit shall endure, VIVA LA LEMMY!!
Good thing I’m not on that shitty platform anymore.
I deleted my shut when I left bur thinking about it. It’s mostly drunken rambling and bad takes. Probably should have left it
