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Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point is not about the money - the point is using data contributed by users without the proper license to create something that might yield revenue which will then not be shared or payed forward in any way to the contributors. We have all worked hard to create the data used by companies to sell ads to us and make massive amounts of money. I guess I got a couple gigs of free email? Cool... I also understand that m…

In Reddit's case, that's the deal. You get a website to share things on with other people, and the value exchange involves you giving full licence to Reddit and giving relicense rights to Reddit. Personally, I find that a very fair deal and clearly other people do as well. I think it actually yields positive externalities because we get things that wouldn't exist otherwise because the transaction costs outweigh the v…

> clearly other people do as well

I don't think most people understand how the content they post to Reddit is licensed.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Why reddit comments and not their own user comment data? Oh I know - what better way to avoid those pesky privacy people by pinning it onto another company.

I think it's probably because Facebook comments are garbage. Just people tagging eachother and saying lol. Reddit's are hardly high quality but at least they are roughly sentences most of the time.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Blog post: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/state-of-the-art-open-source-ch... Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.13637.pdf Open Source: https://parl.ai/projects/recipes/ Ask us anything, the Facebook team behind it is happy to answer questions here.

Anything?

Why do you choose to use your incredible talents for the benefit of such a disgusting company?

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I fed the script to M-x doctor, and had a nice chat. --- I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice. Hi how are you today? How do you do? What brings you to see me? Doing well. My favorite food is cake. I just bought one because I got promoted at work! Is it because you got promoted at work that you came to me? Thanks so much, I just want to make my pa…

Clarification for people who don't get the joke: M-x doctor (doctor.el) is an Emacs mode — basically a builtin chatbot. This is me feeding the human part of the conversation featured in the Facebook blog post into doctor.el.

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/play/...

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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I fed the script to M-x doctor, and had a nice chat. --- I am the psychotherapist. Please, describe your problems. Each time you are finished talking, type RET twice. Hi how are you today? How do you do? What brings you to see me? Doing well. My favorite food is cake. I just bought one because I got promoted at work! Is it because you got promoted at work that you came to me? Thanks so much, I just want to make my pa…

The example in the article had the same environmental engineer question, is it just memorizing responses and spitting them back?

See the clarification https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23099381.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

#176
Facebook is not a university, so there's no technical need for an IRB but I'd be curious what, if any, review process was done to approve this research?

I understand that posts I made are in public, but I feel uneasy about a for profit company I am not a user of scanning, archiving, and using posts I made in public to aid their business, especially if they have a huge corpus of data from people who opted into the product.

(Also I am using a throwaway for privacy, but I will proactively note I do not have any stock in, nor am I an employeee of, any Facebook competitors. But I fully admit I deleted my Facebook, and I did so because I did not feel like my data was being treated respectfully by the company.)

Thank you for taking the time to post this, and sorry to put you on the spot in a public forum - if this was Twitter I'd have DMed :)

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

But toxicity and quality is subjective. The technical achievement is undeniably brilliant, but the quality of the personality is subject to opinion - as I mentioned, I did not personally enjoy the agreeability of the bot. What's toxic today may not be toxic tomorrow and vice versa. It's just a matter of time before a model of this size can be run on commodity hardware and somebody will take the brakes off and/or atte…

For a more toxic version of a similar kind of bot, check out SubSimulatorGPT2: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/top/?sort=top&t=al... Unfortunately you can't talk to it. (I've wanted to retrain a version that you can interact with dynamically, someday.)

The comment thread on the self-awareness post is both very convincing and really meta. I love how clear the training of the different bots is.

Re: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

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“ a new chatbot that it claims is able to demonstrate empathy, knowledge and personality.” I’m not sure Reddit is the right place to learn any of those things.

I was trying to have a real discussion with it but it downvoted everything I said and then shadowbanned me.
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