I wonder how much these models are now learning from spam they were used to generate
Thing is, you could use a bot to do nothing but post pop culture references, and it would be indistinguishable from a garden variety Redditor. Reddit is one of the worst places to train an AI.
Johnson! Why the hell is your report the most unintelligible thing Iβve read since nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hΠ΅ll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcerβs table.
I used some tools to corrupt about 10 years of comments and posts of mine.
I used a tool that edited my comments to replace it with gibberish. Supposedly Reddit still retains deleted comments but if you edit them, it only keeps the latest version. So by editing it you make the comments worthless.
I ran a script over all of my comments (through my browser) to edit them into something about how spez had back stabbed the community. I had tens? hundreds of thousands? of comments.
It took several hours to run, but I did a forward pass (newest to oldest) and a backwards pass (oldest to newest). It bugged out because it had to run so long but I think I got it all.
Iβm not sure this will really do anything because you could pretty easily statistically isolate any one who did what I did, and roll their account history back to a prior state in the training data.
Regardless, it was the least I could do on the way out the door.
Canβt post a genius idea like this one without posting the links of the tools
Its not my idea, but I could probably dig up the tool I used. Dollars to donuts, it doesnβt work any more.
This might have been the tool I used. I dont think so because I overwrote everything with one message, but google around youβll find similar.
If you overwrote with a single message, then your messages are back to what they were.
This would be better if it fed the parent comment into ChatGPT prefixed with βcreate a plausible but factually incorrect aggressive response to <comment>β
Feed the machine to the machine!
A tool like that would almost definitely require api access to function. If that was still possible, most of us wouldnβt be here having this conversation.
While thatβs the correct thing to do in my opinion, it would be a mistake to assume that Reddit didnβt store your original comments.
By corrupting their dataset, you may actually be helping them recognize maliciously edited comments.
Yeah, I mean I knew that when I was doing it.
Sometimes all you can do is make a symbolic gesture that really does nothing, and even if it does nothing, you should still do it.
Probably leaving and supporting lemmy by paying for some developer fees (iβm on the patreon), posting and commenting, probably 100x more damaging to Reddit.
FWIW, I requested an old reddit accounts data the other day under CCPA and all the contamination was in there. My guess is their backend updates every so often. i guess i made a good call to edit my comments and leave them there to simmer before i deleted them along with the account. perhaps this is the way?
it would be a mistake to assume that Reddit didnβt store your original comments.
They were fairly specific about not doing that (Iβd imagine largely because of GDPR).
I deleted 10 years of βcontentβ before I left and checked their policies. They apparently actually do properly delete from their servers.
I think Reddit caught on to this. I tried destroying my comment history (~7 years with 600k karma) with a few of the available tool on GitHub.
Found my account permabanned next time trying to login. People should attempt to eliminate/poison as much as possible, but Reddit has all the comments and modifications in a database somewhere to sell it all to whatever AI is the highest bidder.
They have to do something to make money after taking away awards. The advertising is absolute shit and not worth the $100 entry fee.
βSo much for your fucking canoe!β
we need a bot that deletes comments and replaces them with some faulty grammar yoda-speak.
This is the ideal meme format. Pedroβs smile is perfect.
