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I'd sure hope not. Reddit comments are a masterclass in disguising ethos and pathos as logos. I'd expect that the boring reality is that it's trained on highly
by z3c0 4y ago
I'd sure hope not. Reddit comments are a masterclass in disguising ethos and pathos as logos.
I'd expect that the boring reality is that it's trained on highly ethos/logos text (academic works) and thus always presents itself as such, even when its weights cause an invalid assertion.
- robswc 4y agoReddit is exhausting. One big feedback loop. People will say anything to get good karma or avoid saying certain things to avoid being down voted. If there is even just a slight majority in the way the group thinks, it will soon become the dominate opinion. For example, there was a voice actor that lied about being paid a pitiful sum of money for a gig. Everyone took her side initially (as one should _if_ it were true) but the people saying "well, this just seems odd" were being more or less attacked and told their opinions were awful. The quality of discussions I have on HN and niche forums are 100x better than reddit.
- colejohnson66 4y agoTBF, the same can happen here to a lesser extent. False or misleading stories blow up quickly because “$BIGCORP bad”.
- BbzzbB 4y agoIt's trained on Twitter data so I assume Reddit data as well. Honestly feels like they're both pretty important datasets to ingest if trying to build a model on human speech, I reckon social medias, comment sections and co have the most natural human conversational text online.