Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content::Reddit has reportedly made a deal with an unnamed AI company to allow access to its platform’s content for the purposes of AI model training.

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      9 months ago

      it’s all but guaranteed. Reminds me of this Computerphile video: https://youtu.be/WO2X3oZEJOA?t=874 TL;DW: there were “glitch tokens” in GPT (and therefore ChatGPT) which undeniably came from Reddit usernames.

      Note, there’s no proof that these reddit usernames were in the training data (and there’s even reasons to assume that they weren’t, watch the video for context) but there’s no doubt that OpenAI already had scraped reddit data at some point prior to training, probably mixed in with all the rest of their text data. I see no reason to assume they completely removed all reddit text before training. The video suggest reasons and evidence that they removed certain subreddits, not all of reddit.

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    9 months ago

    For anyone looking for a gibberish generator to replace their Reddit content with, here’s one. This shit is like poison for those large models.

    For automatic edition I’m not sure on what people can use nowadays; back then just before the APIcalypse I’ve used power delete suite, I’m not sure if it still works and I’m not creating a Reddit account just to test it out.

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      9 months ago

      Not that I’m against telling Reddit to fuck off in no uncertain terms, but won’t providing this kind of poisoning to AI training just make it more resilient to exactly this kind of thing?