So Google paid 60M/year to use your Reddit posts to train its AI. If you don't want that, you can use this PowerDeleteSuite bookmarklet to mass-delete all your Reddit posts and comments anonymously. It's easy (and it still works):
if, like me, you've got a reddit account that you're ready to nuke completely, this tool does a surprisingly great job (and includes a local backup option!): https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
remember: if you just delete your reddit account without first deleting your posts, your posts will stay there for infinity, just without your name attached to it.
Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.
My #reddit Canary - whenever a sub has a highly upvoted post that’s just like “I graduated!” or “Finally got my license!” I immediately unsubscribe. I’m sorry, but that’s not “InterestingAsFuck” in the slightest.
honestly, i've been enjoying using #mastodon over stuff like #reddit and #twitter over the past year.
this is like, a completely new way of experiencing the internet and gaining access to interesting things. no longer do i have to doubt being manipulated by some algorithm or to think that i need to behave a certain way for a platform to cater towards me
Just the latest in companies using all your content and data to make money with #AI.
Here’s an idea (🧵 incoming):
It’s probably too late (this is a classic case of regulations lagging behind technology, to the detriment of individuals and society), but I’d like to see regulation that stops companies using or selling their data for training AI models, if users did not very explicitly opt in to having their data used like this.
Feeling overwhelmed with social media and info overload, so I
unfollowed all political youtube channels & paused history so I won't get recs
Cleaned up my Mastodon feed (followed too many hashtags, so my Home feed was overwhelming)
Added more keywords to my filters
I love that #Mastodon gives me the power to control my feed. I'm a #Reddit mod and I am constantly exposed to outrage content & there's nothing I can do about it 😩
#Reddit sells out its users to pump up the price just before IPO, turning the people most likely to buy shares into the people least likely to buy shares.
Reddit (which most people use because it's real people providing real advice/information) about to pipe all of that into AI, so you can get regurgitated random, probably incorrect advice from some AI bot.
It is Monday, February 19th, and Stuff has Happened.
Too much AI bullshit. An airline trusted AI too much and now has to pay up. Reddit decides to sell their user content to AI companies for peanuts. OpenAI missed the point of Oppenheimer. Russia likely killed a prominent dissenter.
Just as we all knew all along, #Reddit’s move to charge exorbitant fees for API access was so they can cut lucrative deals to sell user-created material to train #AI models.
I was a redditor of about 15 years when I decided to delete everything I wrote and close my account because I foresaw this hostile repurposing of what is essentially a massive store of freely-accessible, context-rich community-generated content, made by people who didn’t necessarily want their content to be used for training without compensation.
AI training is largely built on top of exploitation of labor for private gain. It’s legal in many cases, but it’s often unethical and immoral.
“Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO”
"Reddit will let 'an unnamed large AI company' have access to its user-generated content platform in a new licensing deal, according to Bloomberg yesterday. The deal, 'worth about $60 million on an annualized basis,' the outlet writes, could still change as the company’s plans to go public are still in the works."
Some sage scifi: community lessons in a post-Reddit universe. It’s been eight months since the Reddit blackout. We didn’t know what to expect last June, but we did know that Reddit jumped the shark of Internet relevance. #Reddit#Fediverse#Mastodon#Kbin
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Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google (www.reuters.com)
Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/17/24075670/reddit-ai-training-license-deal-user-content