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> updating their data might become increasingly difficult. Very true, I suspect part of the changes at Reddit are being driven by them wanting to hoard their d
by JustBreath 3y ago
> updating their data might become increasingly difficult.
Very true, I suspect part of the changes at Reddit are being driven by them wanting to hoard their data from AI's et. al or at least make them pay for it.
- bugglebeetle 3y agoThis will not solve any of Reddit’s problems or preserve their data value. While more complicated than an API, it’s trivial to run accounts flooding Reddit with AI generated content through browser automation. Even if they switch to app only access, this is still not meaningfully challenging and app-only would also destroy the service.
- jprete 3y agoReddit doesn’t care about hosting AI content as long as it engages people. The idea (probably wrong) was that Reddit didn’t want to give free unlimited access to the data to anyone training an AI.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoThat idea makes no sense though. The whole Reddit corpus from before ChatGPT is already out there on the Internet, packaged, mirrored and ready for download. The content that was submitted after ChatGPT became publicly available is "adulterated" by LLM-generated text, to an unknown but growing degree. I.e. all the valuable data is already out, and whatever new data Reddit would want to gatekeep is losing its value with each passing minute.
- dontupvoteme 3y agoIs post 2023-05 reddit data really that valuable? the website's become quite cliched at this point, it's apparently full of bot spam, and you already have a ton of data to work with. What would be valuable to sell is the real upvote/downvote information. I would be more interested to see if all of per-Eternal September Usenet is included or not. Just reprocess the data so they're having friendly chats about vi vs emacs and you don't have to worry about toxicity.