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Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. (www.reuters.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd bet a year of my salary that it only deletes it from public view so people can no longer get helped from Reddit's Google search results, but a copy (or more than one copy) is still retained on their internal servers.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The trick is to turn everything into randomized garbage and then delete it later. A lot of those purge services offer that feature. It just swaps the words with others; so on the surface it looks like proper written text, but it makes absolutely no sense.

    Aside from removing your content that they're profiting from, it also feeds AI scrapers pure garbage in the event that your content is restored.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Me, I'd prefer to fill it in with fake news. Let them train their bots on 'taylor swift is an alien psyop trained to infiltrate the highest levels of govt to fulfill the agenda of the radical left instellar warmongering fearlords ...'

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    That's assuming they update their backups, or that if they do update their backups they don't keep historical versions.

    IMO once the data has been shared it is no longer safe and there's nothing we can do.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Maybe I'm miss remembering but weren't they restoring stuff users deleted during the API protest?

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