I’ve said so many wrong and stupid things on reddit over the years both purposely and not. I wouldn’t trust anything trained on reddit. And facebook shouldn’t even be thought if as a training source as its mainly bots, idiots and propaganda.
Stack overflow, I’ve never used but seems to be mostly smart people.
Cool! So they’re training AI on the worst humanity has to offer: Young Nazis for Freedom, “No Means Try Again Later” Techbrodudes, and Old Nazis who Don’t Care About Freedom.
Cool cool cool!
If they hadn’t made it impossible to use a functional app to browse their site, I probably wouldn’t care.
But the fact that they blocked 100 apps that would, if you merged the absolute worst of all of them, still blow the actual Reddit app out of the water? Nope. Fuck 'em.
Yep. I knew it was a public when I posted it. The thing I have a problem with is when my non-public content is used by people I didn’t intend.
According to gdpr it is not allowed to use people’s data for purposes other than the ones they agreed to. I had an e-mail discussion with them and I filed a complaint with my countries gdpr enforcement agency. They take a while to investigate and react, but hopefully if enough people complain they will take it seriously.
An AI using what I say to train it will only make AI more like me. As far as I’m concerned, that’s an improvement that may help others while not affecting my life one iota. It’s not like it remembers who said what, it all just tweaks the algorithm.
Advertisers have been recording and storing what you say word for word to build a profile specific to you, containing your deepest, darkest truths so they can trick you into giving them more of your money. Who cares about AI training on publicly posted comments, it’s just taking energy away from the real privacy issues.
In 2022 I was among the 1% of most karma awarded on reddit. Hadn’t been banned anywhere.
Then in 2024 their IPO went public. A week later it was said that AI bots were now scrubbing the site to sell your data to google.
Within 3 weeks I was permanently banned, for 3 posts that had nothing wrong with them. One of them I understand how an AI would flag if its just using keywords. In context of the conversation nothing was wrong.
The other 2 didn’t even have keywords which an AI would pick up on.
So my assumption is the AI scrubbed my data, started acting like me, which is to say an absurdist, and google didn’t like the results of my data. So reddit banned me.
