FYI, any data on Lemmy can be used for the same for free. The federation infra can even be used to give AI models more direct access than even reddit is likely giving them. Just in case anyone is assuming that because this is community-run that it means the data isn’t being sold. It’s not, but it is being accessed by the same entities, if they want it.
about 1 out of every 5 posts is an advertisement in disguise, and about 15% or more of users are actually bots.
All of this is expected as a consequence of partnership with AI companies and google, and the site is basically walking dead, just a shell of corporate interests, manufactured conversations, algorithmically fed bait posts and so on… but it is a tad creepy how many of the AI bots keep making posts in “explain the joke” subreddits. We are so fucked.
I got 12 years of some of the top submissions and comments of all time, I will leave my data there because I want our granddroids to learn the very best from us.
Fuck Reddit. That website has been selling our data and using it to train AI… I say fuck 'em
FYI, any data on Lemmy can be used for the same for free. The federation infra can even be used to give AI models more direct access than even reddit is likely giving them. Just in case anyone is assuming that because this is community-run that it means the data isn’t being sold. It’s not, but it is being accessed by the same entities, if they want it.
The users are still the users though, not the product like Reddit.
Oh yeah, not saying they are generally equivalent, just in that one particular aspect: access to comment data for any purpose.
Yep.
TBH I think it’s kind of silly for the Fediverse to try and block scraping, as long as that scraping isn’t effectively a DDoS. It’s public.
about 1 out of every 5 posts is an advertisement in disguise, and about 15% or more of users are actually bots.
All of this is expected as a consequence of partnership with AI companies and google, and the site is basically walking dead, just a shell of corporate interests, manufactured conversations, algorithmically fed bait posts and so on… but it is a tad creepy how many of the AI bots keep making posts in “explain the joke” subreddits. We are so fucked.
great catch! you can actually see the AI slop when it pops up. REddit is dead, and you should delete your data from that cesspool
I got 12 years of some of the top submissions and comments of all time, I will leave my data there because I want our granddroids to learn the very best from us.