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My bet is that investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital are pulling their hairs out, seeing Reddit lose money at the end of the month, after Open
by shmatt 3y ago
My bet is that investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital are pulling their hairs out, seeing Reddit lose money at the end of the month, after Open AI and others are raising trillions by scraping their data
- b112 3y agoWait, you're saying openai was trained on reddit posts?! No wonder people are scared of AI.
- dale_glass 3y agoIt is well known, yes. This was discussed a way back during the whole glitch tokens deal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2X3oZEJOA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2X3oZEJOA A bunch of those, like " SolidGoldMagikarp" are Reddit users.
- paulddraper 3y agoMaking the "weaponized autism" trope real
- cratermoon 3y agoReddit and StackOverflow notably. Most use https://commoncrawl.org/ https://commoncrawl.org/ or a derivative of it.
- GartzenDeHaes 3y agoYou can often google Copilot output and find the source StackOverflow post. Saves a step I guess.
- hirako2000 3y agoNot reddit data, users data.
- RosanaAnaDana 3y agoThis is the key. Reddit owns nothing except a very poorly performant app that no one wants and a very forced and shitty web experience unless you are on old.reddit.com. Its mind boggling how wrong they've been getting it for as long as they've been getting it wrong. Like how can any company/ CEO be that dense?
- sekai 3y agoExactly, when users start migrating, Reddit is dead in the water.
- e4e5 3y agoDoesn't Reddit own the data now? That's the unfortunate truth of these platforms. They offer your a platform and pay for hosting and you give them your attention and content.
- Sophira 3y agoLegally, they don't own the data, but they do have a perpetual license to the data and can do basically whatever they want it with it. Not much of a difference but it's one of these things where the details might be crucial.
- kyriakos 3y agoI haven't tested it but if as a user you were to ask for your days to be deleted they'd have to comply, at least in EU. So if there was a mass walkout a lot of comments and post would disappear.
- anadem 3y agoNo need to ask, just use Power Delete Suite: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
- foogazi 3y agoNot your keys, not your coins
- nkozyra 3y agoThere's no way to win this battle, though. Are they going to ... stop the Internet? People will find a way to siphon data from sites where people contribute large volumes of data.