Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments - eviltoast
  • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    I think the most important point is that its competent ineffective for thwarting LLMS. They will be trained using the original data.

    Also, if any significant portion of users nuked their comment history it would be trivial for reddit to block the user and undo the edits.

    • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      7 months ago

      Also, if any significant portion of users nuked their comment history it would be trivial for reddit to block the user and undo the edits.

      It would be trivial from a procedure standpoint, but not from a social one. It would be really bad reputation for Reddit - “this site doesn’t allow you to remove your content from it”. Problematic specially in Europe.

          • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            7 months ago

            Nonsense. What happened with the 3rd party apps thing? Mods were staging strikes, resigning, protesting. Pretty much worst possible case for brand rep.

            They just held their ground, users continued, advertisers didn’t/ don’t care.

            Don’t labour under the illusion that some kind of people power exists.

            For every 1 user that cares about this there are 100s of thousands that just plain don’t care.