Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public offering.
  • WarmSoda@lemm.ee
    11·
    9 months ago

    Great. Now all the AI bots will just be saying “This” and “came here to say that.”

  • trolololol@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 months ago

    This is going to produce the saltiest AI the world has ever seen.

    “Hey reddit ai , give me an idea how to balance my budget and pay my student debt, mate”. “here ya go, I got a noose for you. Also I’m not your mate, dude”.

    " Hey reddit ai, draw for me a house with a genz family". Here ya go. " Hey reddit ai, why did you show me a pic of a highway ramp with homeless people?"

  • forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml
    6·
    9 months ago

    FYI: reddit orphans content. In other words your posts/comments are undeletable.

    I found instances of such late last year by way of search results. I clicked a username to see more posts by that account. The only content on their profile page was a final deletion message about the API changes.

    Their post history was discoverable by using “<username> site:reddit.com” on Google. All of their posts/comments still show up under their username instead of the normal [deleted]. Clicking the username takes you to their empty profile page.

    So what we know from this now is that reddit has been saving original submissions. Whereas before their claim was that only the last edits are stored. Which is why the deletion scipts became a thing. People took it on good faith that we could delete our posts. At some point they stopped doing that. Or perhaps it was all a lie the whole time. Who knows.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      9 months ago

      What happens if you edit every other post with absolute nonsense sentences? I doubt they have a way to go through that?

    • mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk
      1·
      9 months ago

      This is how I cleaned (most) of my old posts: Searched them via Google. As they’re posted under my username I was able to change them into nonsense before deleting then. Even though they never appeared under my profile anymore.

    • RoosterBoy@lemm.ee
      1·
      9 months ago

      No, that’s Google keeping the content of the pages they scraped at the time they scraped them.

  • GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
    4·
    9 months ago

    I stopped posting there the moment they pulled the trigger on the API change. I used to like cruising LinuxQuestions and answering people, too.

  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee
    3·
    9 months ago

    Alt title: Reddit looking to steal value from their millions of free users

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
    3·
    9 months ago

    This is why I deleted my posts. Also, 60 million is a jokingly lowball figure.

    I wonder how reddit users feel about this. I wouldn’t know, I DNS blocked the site months ago.

  • Flumpkin@slrpnk.net
    2·
    9 months ago

    It’s a power grab. They’ll justify control over the training data with intellectual property which keeps it out of the hands of everyday people but they stole the “intellectual property” from us in the first place. Then they’ll control the “means of generation”.

    • Tak@lemmy.ml
      1·
      9 months ago

      I’m just wondering what the hell they’re expecting to teach this AI off Reddit user data. Reddit has been scraped for years and most of what could have been learned has already been used I’d assume.

      Reddit has been more and more video based lately and it feels to me like it is becoming a less algorithmic version of TikTok.

      • athos77@kbin.social
        2·
        9 months ago

        Spez has spent his entire time as CEO chasing the latest tech shiny - reddit crypto, reddit NFTs, reddit video a la TikTok. And he’s always managed to do it after the craze has started to peak. So now he’s chasing the latest shiny, reddit AI, starting a full year after everyone else already released their products.

        He’s late yet again, and he’s proven repeatedly that’s he’s failed to understand reddit’s greatest strengths and value. This “reddit AI content” and the IPO is his last chance to get some value out of reddit, and his last chance to make money for nothing because no one is going to hire him in a leadership role ever again. I just wonder if he’s smart enough to understand that, or whether he’s just hoping to get enough money to fully build out and stock his personal doomsday bunker.

    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
      01·
      9 months ago

      I would love a GPT model that just replies to every prompt with “Ya’ll can’t behave.”

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
    31·
    9 months ago

    Well… We all knew that was coming. If you still have an account haven’t done so, now’s a good time to purge your account!

    • bamboo@lemm.ee
      3·
      9 months ago

      Unless you live in the EU or California, odds are that just deletes the public data, I’m sure Reddit retains it and would sell it.

    • EnderMB@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      I’d be very surprised if comments weren’t versioned in some way, so even if you delete or rewrite that data, it’s probably still there and a part of training data.

      • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        9 months ago

        Even if it’s just another scheme to further concentrate wealth (and it is at least that), that harms everyone but the 0.1%.

            • FaceDeer@kbin.social
              0·
              9 months ago

              My original question remains unanswered. “It may help someone I don’t like because they are richer than me” is a pretty weak concept of “harm.”

              • ImpossibilityBox@lemmy.world
                1·
                9 months ago

                That argument is a very short (not very detailed) way of surmising the current issue with our world as a whole.

                Don’t like how cars have taken over the world, are the reason cities are hard to live in for low income families, and cause massive amount of climate damage? You can thank the 1% for that.

                Frustrated with how you don’t really own anything, your digital “property” can be taken away from you at a moments notice, and that everything you enjoy gets stuffed with schemes to make more money off of vulnerable people? You can thank the 1% for that.

                Angered that health care costs truly absurd amounts, that medicine is sold to the consumer with a 10,000% mark up, or that a single accident that was not their fault could land someone in debt for life? You can thank the 1% for that.

                A disturbing amount of things that are not good for our planet, keep the poor people poor, and generate inferior products/experiences is directly because of the insane power that the rich hold over our worlds systems.

                “It helps someone I don’t like because they are richer than me” is actually a wonderful definition of harm.

                Reddit used to be an amazing place of community and content that you couldn’t find anywhere on the internet. Then in the pursuit of money and the power that the 1% have Reddit (the company) started implementing practices that actively made the experience worse for the user, violated a person’s ownership of their content, and removed choice just like authoritative/dictatorship governments do.

                It feels to most people that there is nearly nothing that can be done about it. So when a person has the opportunity to directly go against the rich caste in our world they will take that opportunity immediately.

                I recommend taking a hard look at the things that concern you with our world, or cause you pain/annoyance/discomfort and try and learn WHY the issue is the way it is. The majority of the time is because some rich person/group of people (I’m looking at you lobby groups) has an obscene amount of power compared to all of the people affected.

                Lastly there is a reason that “Tax the rich/Eat the rich” is the rally cry of generations.

                It’s because the rich cause us harm.

  • ulkesh@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    I so want to see Reddit die. I browsed the site for the first time in 2007. I adored it. Now it is nothing but a cesspool of morons trying to find an echo chamber for their idiocy, led by king of the morons, Spez.

    It’s time for better competition in this space and the Fediverse is one step toward that goal.

  • tristan@aussie.zone
    1·
    9 months ago

    You know how artists can poison their images for AI… We need a way to poison content on Reddit

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    0·
    9 months ago

    what could go wrong with training your ai based on the posts of the most racist and misogynistic people on the internet?