Seems like a good time to stop posting original content on Reddit for free.
Yeah - I was going to keep my existing stuff up, but I think I'll clear out my account's previous posts and comments.
good luck on actually "deleting" your data
Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
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Re: Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
#12Seems like a good time to stop posting original content on Reddit for free.
Yeah - I was going to keep my existing stuff up, but I think I'll clear out my account's previous posts and comments.
I've been working on deleting my reddit posts over the past year. The site now feels like it's almost 100% bots, which I find more than a little sad.
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#13Reddit's MO is snark and sarcasm. It's hard for me to imagine a scenario where a LLM trained on reddit would be useful for anything serious. How do they propose to seperate fact from fiction?
You needn't wonder, though it's a little behind the times now.
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#14Reddit's MO is snark and sarcasm. It's hard for me to imagine a scenario where a LLM trained on reddit would be useful for anything serious. How do they propose to seperate fact from fiction?
That's just the tip of the iceberg.
There's a reason plenty of people append "reddit" to their google searches.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah - I was going to keep my existing stuff up, but I think I'll clear out my account's previous posts and comments.
I've been working on deleting my reddit posts over the past year. The site now feels like it's almost 100% bots, which I find more than a little sad.
There are scripts that can do this all for you in an instant.
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#16Good time to create a community for artists that doesn't allow AI scraping.
Re: Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
#17How can they license something that they didn’t author? Yes, they have TOS. But training generative AI wasn’t something that existed when ~99% of Reddit’s content was created, hence users could not possibly have consented to it. Besides, at least in Germany, TOS cannot contain regulations that are “surprising” or “unexpected”. Using my content to serve ads is one thing I might expect. But licensing it out for a fee to third parties? I don’t think so.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah - I was going to keep my existing stuff up, but I think I'll clear out my account's previous posts and comments.
I've been working on deleting my reddit posts over the past year. The site now feels like it's almost 100% bots, which I find more than a little sad.
I wrote myself a little python script to do this a while back. I’m not sure that it will still work due to their API changes.
A longer while back I wrote a little JS bookmarklet to do it. It could just do a page at a time, which was annoying, but not too bad. However, when they would change the site, it would stop working and need to be fixed.
Remember to edit the comment before you delete it. From what I read, deleting a comment just sets a flag on the comment as delete, so it’s still in the DB for them to sell. Making it garbage text will kill the value of the comment in the DB as well, and probably really screw with the AI trying to train from it.
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#19Seems like a good time to stop posting original content on Reddit for free.
Yeah - I was going to keep my existing stuff up, but I think I'll clear out my account's previous posts and comments.
I deleted all the content on my main account. Most of it wasn't useful, but a couple of posts and threads ranked well on Google and I like to think that hurts the site just a little bit.
Re: Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company
#20How can they license something that they didn’t author? Yes, they have TOS. But training generative AI wasn’t something that existed when ~99% of Reddit’s content was created, hence users could not possibly have consented to it. Besides, at least in Germany, TOS cannot contain regulations that are “surprising” or “unexpected”. Using my content to serve ads is one thing I might expect. But licensing it out for a fee t…
Because it is reddit, one of the most vile companies on the planet.