• Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    10 hours 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.

    On top of that, reddit has quickly become a non-source for opinions… I used to append “reddit” to any search where I wanted candid feedback, but absolutely would never do that these days. That’s less traffic, which is less ad money, which comprises the vast majority of their revenue. Reputation is virtually the only thing that matters for search, and Reddit’s reputation has been sliding for years.

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      5 hours 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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      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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        7 hours 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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        7 hours ago

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