• garibaldi_biscuit@lemmy.world
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    This is what the 3rd party access to API was really all about.

    When API access was allowed , all reddit content was effectively free: They needed to ban 3rd party apps so they could sell the accumulated content. I expect using content to train AI also factors into it.

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    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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    This is why I don’t blame anyone for editing/deleting their post history on reddit.

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    Reddit is all bots, porn, ads and political shit posts. Good luck getting any useful training content out of that.

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      Maybe that’s the point? Training the AI to produce the blabbering bullshit that’s preferred in social media?

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      They don’t care if the AI produced is useful, they just want to milk as much money from their content as they can.

      The API changes were almost certainly just the groundwork for this and I called it at the time. The ridiculous pricing model for API access is because it’s aimed at the hottest tech companies, not third party app developers.

      The enshittification continues because it’s what neoliberalism demands. They’ll sell your content and the data they have about you and still show you ads, because that’s the most profitable. Ethics and product quality don’t even enter into it.

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    With reddits severe bot problem, it’ll be like training on unfiltered sewage. Garbage in, garbage out.

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    “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

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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      Well it’s not yours once you post it on some platform, tbf

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    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.

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    Good thing I scrubbed all of my posts and comments that I could. Fuck that site, straight up and down.

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    *laughs villainously* This is all going to plan, now there will be some chatbot spewing my insane beliefs