▲ 267 ▼ Reddit signs $60M contract allowing AI company to train its models on the social media platform's content (www.reuters.com) submitted 2 years ago by minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to c/technology@beehaw.org 108 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] bilboswaggings@sopuli.xyz 21 points 2 years ago (1 child) Trained on 99% reposts permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hubi@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child) And the outputs of bots. There has been a shocking increase in auto-generated comments on reddit in the past years and it's turning the training data into a minefield. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nul@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago Haven't touched reddit socially in 8 months, but every now and then I'll use it to search for opinions or instructions on things. Searched "reddit best domain registrar" recently and landed on a thread where top to bottom, every comment recommending a registrar was from a bot and/or banned account. No real person testimonials, all ads. And as AI implementations improve, that's going to get harder to spot. In the meantime, I'm formatting searches like "best domain registrar lemmy" because reddit is legit that bad rn. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hubi@feddit.de 16 points 2 years ago* (1 child) And the outputs of bots. There has been a shocking increase in auto-generated comments on reddit in the past years and it's turning the training data into a minefield. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nul@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago Haven't touched reddit socially in 8 months, but every now and then I'll use it to search for opinions or instructions on things. Searched "reddit best domain registrar" recently and landed on a thread where top to bottom, every comment recommending a registrar was from a bot and/or banned account. No real person testimonials, all ads. And as AI implementations improve, that's going to get harder to spot. In the meantime, I'm formatting searches like "best domain registrar lemmy" because reddit is legit that bad rn. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nul@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago Haven't touched reddit socially in 8 months, but every now and then I'll use it to search for opinions or instructions on things. Searched "reddit best domain registrar" recently and landed on a thread where top to bottom, every comment recommending a registrar was from a bot and/or banned account. No real person testimonials, all ads. And as AI implementations improve, that's going to get harder to spot. In the meantime, I'm formatting searches like "best domain registrar lemmy" because reddit is legit that bad rn. permalink fedilink source parent