Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text - eviltoast
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I know there are other ways of accomplishing that, but this might be a convenient way of doing it. I’m wondering though if Reddit is still reverting these changes?

  • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Relatively recently being 6 years ago.

    Keeping old data is expensive, and usually a waste of money.

    At the same time, text, which Reddit was exclusively, for a good long time, compresses really well. The entirety of Wikipedia goes from 10 TB to 100 GB when compressed, and if it’s just the article text alone, 22 GB.

    That’s a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of data that they would have had to deal with when they started deciding to take on video and image hosting.