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Ok but Reddit absolutely saves the old comments though
You are polluting the data set. Do it a few times with different text sources and the scrubbers won’t know what part of your comment history is good. Replace, don’t delete.
I’m pretty sure they’ll know that the first version of each comment is almost certainly the good one. People sometimes edit a comment to add new information or fix a typo, but they almost never replace nonsense with a good comment, rather than the other way around.
Edit: fixed typos, also replaced excerpt from Moby Dick with this post.
Edit 2: the comments you post here are totally available for machine learning, so I don’t see much of a point in deleting my Reddit comments as long as I’m participating in Lemmy.
Maybe. Almost every comment I make I edit. The key is that by doing this you are inserting the possibility. It is actually easier, and safer, to just filter out edited comments than it is to try to sort out what’s good and what isn’t. The bottom line is that the best course of action is to avoid Reddit at all cost. If you do go there and feel compelled to comment, then coming back the next day to replace your comments a few times is better than “deleting”.
Not in a meaningful way. It’s easy to detect and revert a change like this. Instead of bulk changing all your comments, you should slowly change them over time.
Even then, users don’t usually edit most of their comments. Sure Reddit might be naive and just take the current comments, but it’s pretty trivial to reverse this kind of thing.
Probably good to do it to make this process harder and more error prone for Reddit but I would not be under the impression that this has an impact beyond being annoying.
Or it’ll help train the AI to recognize when that happens and more easily parse history for the relevant stuff.
Reddit has a copy of every comment and edit, they probably have copies of things users type but don’t actually end up posting.
It is brutally trivial to notice mass edits like this.
The only thing this is doing is making it harder for people scraping it without paying, making what reddit is selling actually valuable.
Every edited or deleted comment is more money in their pocket.
Let this be a lesson on generating content for a business and not getting paid for it.
With that said, I’m sure the frog posts are exactly the kind of quality content needed to train an AI.
Good point. At least it’s available freely to everyone instead of being used to make a profit on the content itself.
My comments on that site are so dumb, ai will not produce any good text after using those as training data.
are there copyrighted texts that have such distinctive patterns that they would be particularly easy to spot in an LLM’s output? say, would replacing every comment with a page from moby dick or wuthering heights be more or less infringing than using harry potter? hypothetically.
