It is public… I have a bigger issue with reddit thinking they own it.
According to the TOS you agree to when signing up to reddit, while they don’t outright own your content they do own a license to do pretty much anything they want with your content.
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How much glue should you put in your pizza?
Seriously. Eating Reddit means some truly strange shit is going to emerge. We all know the pattern of fun replies on Reddit, but the AI does not. Hence the glue thing.
I don’t think that’s an impossible problem. Existing models can reliability distinguish between, for example, different languages. Most of their training data is presumably in English but while this may make them better at generating English text, it doesn’t make them randomly switch from other languages to English. A sufficiently advanced model would likewise distinguish between descriptions of reality and shit-posts because the content of shit-posts would not be useful for predicting descriptions of reality. Some fine tuning would teach it to produce just the descriptions of reality.
Or look at it this way: the folks developing these LLMs aren’t ignorant of the fact that Reddit content is often false and meant to be funny. They’re not going to make the sort of silly mistake that someone who isn’t an expert can still easily predict and they’re not going to train their LLMs on that content if it makes the LLMs worse, although we’re still going to see some glue on pizza while the technology continues to develop.
It can cross check a language with tons of other words and examples of that language already in its data set. There is no such data for whether or not something confirms with reality. That simply doesn’t exist and really won’t ever exist. They are not similar problems. One is immensely more challenging to solve than the other.
Cool! So they’re training AI on the worst humanity has to offer: Young Nazis for Freedom, “No Means Try Again Later” Techbrodudes, and Old Nazis who Don’t Care About Freedom.
Cool cool cool!
Jokes on them they paid for my drunk shitposts.
If they hadn’t made it impossible to use a functional app to browse their site, I probably wouldn’t care.
But the fact that they blocked 100 apps that would, if you merged the absolute worst of all of them, still blow the actual Reddit app out of the water? Nope. Fuck 'em.
