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It's the last bastion of original content before the AI storm overruns search entirely. And likely puts reddit firmly in the the AI farm crosshairs as well, so

It's the last bastion of original content before the AI storm overruns search entirely. And likely puts reddit firmly in the the AI farm crosshairs as well, so reddit will be overrun. I think the only good content will be in archived discord channels, or obscure boards that aren't worth aiming AI farms at, but even then, it will probably get scanned and targeted. The only thing that might work is identifying AI information vacuums by their distinct behavior and serving them counter-fake AI content, while user access patterns (as referenced in the above comments about Google-specific reddit robots infrastruction) get the "real stuff". I almost wonder if intentional misspelling and curse words will start to be used to "scare off" AIs and bots from content, and that will become the new codewords for actual information. Like people online in China these days.

unclebucknasty 3y ago
>intentional misspelling and curse words will start to be used to "scare off" AIs and bots If they deem the content valuable enough, I suspect they'd instead just correct for it (e.g. auto-correct mispellings; replace and/or omit curse words). It may get to the point wherein the only way to secure content from AI ingestion is to hide it behind a paywall or otherwise make it non-public, then forbid via the TOS. There'd probably need to be court challenges even then. I also wonder if the LinkedIn case involving scraping (wherein the ruling was essentially that public data was fair game), will be re-tested in the age of AI.
- StressedDev 3y ago
  Criminals, SPAMers, foreign governments, PR firms, unethical corporations, etc. are not going to be stopped by a terms of service document. This will ignore it and keep on spreading disinformation. If AI helps them do this, they will use AI to do it.
  - unclebucknasty 3y ago
    I'm referring to protecting content from ingestion for AI model training.

unclebucknasty 3y ago

>intentional misspelling and curse words will start to be used to "scare off" AIs and bots If they deem the content valuable enough, I suspect they'd instead just correct for it (e.g. auto-correct mispellings; replace and/or omit curse words). It may get to the point wherein the only way to secure content from AI ingestion is to hide it behind a paywall or otherwise make it non-public, then forbid via the TOS. There'd probably need to be court challenges even then. I also wonder if the LinkedIn case involving scraping (wherein the ruling was essentially that public data was fair game), will be re-tested in the age of AI.

StressedDev 3y ago
Criminals, SPAMers, foreign governments, PR firms, unethical corporations, etc. are not going to be stopped by a terms of service document. This will ignore it and keep on spreading disinformation. If AI helps them do this, they will use AI to do it.
- unclebucknasty 3y ago
  I'm referring to protecting content from ingestion for AI model training.