this post was submitted on 23 May 2024
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I see Google's deal with Reddit is going just great...

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Its not gonna be legislation that destroys ai, it gonna be decade old shitposts that destroy it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Everyone who neglected to add the "/s" has become an unwitting data poisoner

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Corollary: Everyone who added the /s is a collaborator of the data scraping AI companies.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Well now I'm glad I didn't delete my old shitposts

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

@dumbass @db0

I suppose we should be glad that they aren’t training on old 4chan/8chan posts.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

@harrys_balzac

Posts there are expired and deleted over time, so unless someone's made an effort to archive them, they're gone.

Of course, the AI people could hoover up new horrible posts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would be surprised if someone hasn't been scraping it for years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

**Moe.archive and 4chan archive have entered the chat. **

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yea there are multiple 4chan archives...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Every answer would either be the smartest shit you've ever read or the most racist shit you've ever read