Where’s my cut?
Can’t wait for the day a major court declares EULAs universally nonbinding outside of the most common-sense terms. Even though I doubt it will ever happen.
“We can store and display your content and use stuff you publicly post as examples in advertisements for our platform” is pretty common sense.
“We can use the things you post to do complex data analytics to package and sell your identity to advertisers” is fucking sus.
“We can use the things you post to train ANN generative systems to build next-generation technologies to impersonate you and your peers” is simply nuts.
The idea that displaying an EULA with an “agree” button is informed consent is just preposterous. Even lawyers don’t read them.
Seems like it would never stand up in court. Prove that -I- agreed to anything. To do that, you first have to prove that nobody has ever created an account under my name, and more importantly, prove that Reddit accounts have never been hacked and that the person who clicked the button was even in my household. And if they keep that extensive of records to where they can follow every action taken by every user on the platform, it also implies that they are tracking my personal actions even before I agreed to anything.
On the other hand, do they actually have a EULA? It’s been almost 14 years since I created my account, and there certainly wasn’t anything about selling my data for AI training when I signed up. If they change the terms of service, they are responsible for notifying everyone, otherwise they can’t claim that anyone agreed to these changes.
I’m sure their lawyers could weasel their way through it some how, but it still seems to come down to them claiming they changed the agreement without notification but the users should still be legally bound by the new terms?
The classic “screw everyone else, I want mine.”
What fraction of a penny do you think you’re owed?
What fraction of a penny do you think you’re owed?
250,000,000/1
Hey, you didn’t specify that it couldn’t be an improper fraction and I like money. It’s loophole time baby!
Good. Maybe when it cogitates the things I’ve written it might start offering up some better ideas.
FUCK REDDIT! FUCK U/SPEZ! The Red-exit shall endure, VIVA LA LEMMY!!
A LLM that behaves like a typical Redditor?
What possible use is that?
You’ll get your refund eventually but first it will try and gaslight you that Air Canada is a woke mind virus before calling you an asshole and then stalking you.
Negative examples are often just as useful for training an AI as positive ones. And it all depends on what you want to use the AI for. A moderator bot, for example, needs familiarity with the whole range of user responses it might see.
A LLM that behaves like a typical Redditor? // What possible use is that?
- [You] “Chatbot, please tell me which pokemon types are strong against Fairy.”
- [Le Lebbit Moronbot] “I’m not sure if I understand, you calling me a chatbot? I’m so confused lol”
- [You] “Moronbot, please tell me which pokemon types are strong against Fairy.”
- [LLM] “Actually, you should be spelling it “Pokémon” lol”
- [You] “Moronbot, which types are strong against Fairy?”
- [LLM] “I assume you talking about fairies. Fairies are from mythology lmao”
- [You] “Did people really waste water and electricity for this trash?”
- [LLM] “Waaah, you’re toxic!!111one”
What possible use is that?
I’ve noticed “has this sub gotten more right wing recently?” posts reaching the top post of the day in the last 6 months or so. r/norge and r/unitedkingdom being examples. You can automate bots that change a subreddit’s consensus on certain topics by bot-spamming threads pertaining to those topics, especially in the first hour of a thread going up. I don’t know if that’s happening, or if it has more to do with the Reddit protest that saw mods abdicate their positions last June and new mods being responsible for the change… but it could also be a bit of both.
Good thing I’m not on that shitty platform anymore.
