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Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models (mashable.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's literally been proven that they do. A guy here on Lemmy was a very common poster on some tech support subreddit. He used one of those account scrubbers and deleted his account. He went back to look a few weeks later and all his comments were back.

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

    I didn't delete my account but I used a script to edit all my messages to say that I have left because of the attack on 3rd party apps and when I check now they all still say that.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    The point is doesn't matter what is visible, they could be storing all the comments edit history and simply not show it.

    That only helps for a third party without access to reddit data , which they could have if reddit sells it to them, from scraping the page, yes in that case your comments cannot be used.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    And they didn't bother to restore you because you probably weren't useful to make a community look attractive. He was so after he scrubbed his account, possibly with the exact same tool you did, they put everything back.

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