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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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[–] 106 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

Reddit is a trove of user built content under the guise of community. What Spez did was to say "thanks for all the free work, suckers!", put a price sticker on it, and laughed all the way to the bank.

And this is why I'm not active on any Internet community anymore. Nevermind, I guess I just can't help myself...

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

    And this is why I’m not active on any Internet community anymore,

    you typed.

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

    Active as in "creating meaningful contributions and contributing to the overall knowledge base". I still shit post from time to time.

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

    This is going to be a really weird thing to argue, but I just casually read through a bunch of your comments and they seem like meaningful contributions.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Somebody asked chat GPT to appear to be a normal internet user to populate the comments section to manufacture content for normal Internet users to respond to so that they can continue building up their training models.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    And that is another unintended example of why all of my post history was purged before migration.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    What are they odds that they kept it in a backup?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Some 4chan users created a backup bot that auto saves every few hours, so if reddit didn't do it already, 4chan has been doing it for a while. The bot was originally made for 4chan but repurposed for other websites, reddit included.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Depends. If they were smart they backed up every content that had a certain number of upvotes and/or a certain number of paragraphs and/or responses. Just to weed out all the 2-3 word comments that no one interacted with. If OP wrote mostly those then Reddit gives a shit about them deleting those.

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