Outside of a web scraper, how sure are we that this poisons reddits actual data being sold to ai companies? It seems trivial for them to have an original comment field in the database that’s invisible to users or just use backed up data. Or even an anonymized copy of all all original comments not linked to any account that is solely for AI training.
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 months ago
I thought about maybe instead of deleting all my comments and posts I could instead replace them with AI rewrites to poison them for other AIs.
brygphilomena@lemmy.world 7 months ago
realbadat@programming.dev 6 months ago
Is it more or less likely to be poisoning the data being sold than doing nothing at all?
gregorum@lemm.ee 7 months ago
i replaced mine with random gibberish. several times. over the course of a week.
then i deleted them
mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And then, when someone (after years) comes across the post and sees that someone had the same problem, they can’t solve their problem because the comments were deleted. This is ridiculous.
ptz@dubvee.org 7 months ago
Eh, I’m biased since I did the same as Gregorum (except I left the replacement text without deleting).
People coming across it later should place the blame where it belongs: Reddit.
Had Reddit not been so disrespectful to the users who made it useful in the first place, then I’d have left my posts/comments up there for posterity. After what they pulled during the API debacle, I absolutely did not want any of my contributions to benefit that company any more.
Sorry for any regular people who got caught in the crossfire, but Reddit made and shat in their own bed.
JoShmoe@ani.social 7 months ago
There should be a three day holiday for when reddit officially dies. Photos of Spez everywhere with the quote “just noise”.
half@lemy.lol 7 months ago
I downloaded all my comments before I deleted the data, and I’m slowly putting all the stuff that was actually important in places where I have a bit more control over how it’s used (i.e., the fediverse, my own websites, etc). Not a perfect solution, but if Reddit wanted to keep it forever they should have treated us better.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
And that helps no one
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
You mean like all the forums we used to have that are now dead and gone?
The need for info doesn’t change, something else will take its place.
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Meh. My comments were not solutions, my comments were either on articles or joke comments or as part of a discussion. You’re deliberately forgetting that reddit is filled with shit posts and pointless slap fights.
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 7 months ago
Depends on the subreddit
willya@lemmyf.uk 7 months ago
That was really the point. Every answer to every question was a google away from a Reddit post.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
I agree with you but you won’t get any points with that around here. Some people here are already of the opinion that if they can get an AI to respond to a question correctly 90% of the time, they don’t need these deleted comments archived anymore. Don’t even know how to argue with someone like that.
mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m the type of user who independently seeks information on internet forums before asking a question, because in 99% of cases, someone has already had the same problem as me.
I usually Google the phrase I’m looking for, adding the word “reddit” to it, and almost always get what I want. And I’ll continue to do so until the Lemmy knowledge base is sufficiently expanded to replace the Reddit knowledge base.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I know the feeling.