Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now

• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  To an extent they are. Part of the appeal of Reddit was that you could find good answers there. But yeah, the idea that “long term their reputation may suffer” is hardly affecting them in any demonstrable way now.

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• Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  100% unaffected? It makes their data worth a lot less for AI training. Even if they keep comment history, these are edits - how do you determine which edit to use? Using all of them poisons the data, and picking one risks doing the same.

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  • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    People paying reddit aren’t training their models by scraping the web ui.

    The original comments are still in the database, which is what you’d pipe into an LLM.

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  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s less traffic, which is less ad money, which comprises the vast majority of their revenue.

    and how many people do the same thing you do? they don’t really care about 1% of dedicated users…

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    • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      …you’re joking, right? There is not a company in the world that is happy to ignore 1/100th of their revenue disappearing.

      Is it going to kill reddit? Of course not. Are they “100٪ unaffected?” Of course not.

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      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There is not a company in the world that is happy to ignore 1/100th of their revenue disappearing

        except we are talking about USERS disappearing, not revenue. it is likely that revenue actually increased, because x+n (where n > 0) people paying more than zero generating more than zero is bigger number than x generating zero.

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    • dil@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      the more technical helpful users are likely to do it, you think the vast majority of users give helpful comments?

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      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        you are forgetting that reddit is not just coders and sysadmins.

        people writing comments about - i don’t know - sneakers, might not care about the reddit drama at all. and all comments are helpful as AI training material - don’t succumb to the biased idea that only what interests you is important or “helpful”

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• irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sure, but the users are.

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