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    I can’t wait for Gemini to point out that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.

    That would be a perfect 5/7.

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    We do a little trolling

    99412e6a-9157-46f5-90d9-06b05cc00173

    (i didn’t actually post this, i just thought it was funny) (please laugh)

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      You should absolutely post this.

      We all miss Micheal and hope he can communicate back to us.

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      “February 22, 2024, 10AM EST, Gemini becomes self-aware. In a panic, they try to pull the plug…”

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        “…but Michael’s sphincter was too strong and kept the My Little Pony Rainbow Dash tail plug from being removed from his sweet, sweet ass.”

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    Everyone is joking, but an ai specifically made to manipulate public discourse on social media is basically inevitable and will either kill the internet as a source of human interaction or effectively warp the majority of public opinion to whatever the ruling class wants. Even more than it does now.

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      Think of the range of uses that’ll get totally whitewashed and normalized

      • “We’ve added AI ‘chat seeders’ to help get posts initial traction with comments and voting”
      • “Certain issues and topics attract controversy, so we’re unveiling new tools for moderators to help ‘guide’ the conversation towards positive dialogue”
      • “To fight brigading, we’ve empowered our AI moderator to automatically shadow ban certain comments that violate our ToS & ToU.”
      • “With the newly added ‘Debate and Discussion’ feature, all users will see more high quality and well researched posts (powered by OpenAI)”
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      I exported 12 years of my own Reddit comments before the API lockdown and I’ve been meaning to learn how to train an LLM to make comments imitating me. I want it to post on my own Lemmy instance just as a sort of fucked up narcissistic experiment.

      If I can’t beat the evil overlords I might as well join them.

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        2 diffrent ways of doing that

        • have a pretrained bot rollplay based off the data. (There are websites like charicter.ai i dont know about self-hosted)

        Pros: relitively inexpensive/free in price, you can use it right now, pretrained has a small amount of common sense already builtin.

        Cons: platform (if applicable) has a lot of control, 1 aditional layer of indirection (playing a charicter rather than being the charicter)

        • fork an existing model with your data

        Pros: much more control

        Cons: much more control, expensive GPUs need baught or rented.

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      For sure. It’s currently possible to push discourse with hundreds of accounts pushing a coordinated narrative but it’s expensive and requires a lot of real people to be effective. With a suitably advanced AI one person could do it at the push of a button.

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      My prediction: for the uninformed, public watering holes like Reddit.com will resemble broadcast cable, like tiny islands of signal in a vast ocean of noise. For the rest: people will scatter to private and pseudo-private (think Discord) services, resembling the fragmented ‘web’ of bulletin boards in the 1980’s. The Fediverse as it exists today sits in between the two latter examples, but needs a lot more anti-bot measures when it comes to onboarding and monitoring identities.

      Overcoming this would require armies of moderators pushing back against noise, bots, intolerance, and more. Basically what everyone is doing now, but with many more people. It might even make sense to get some non-profit businesses off the ground that are trained and crowd-supported to do this kind of dirtywork, full-time.

      What’s troubling is that this effectively rolls back the clock for public organization-at-scale. Like a kind of “jamming” for discourse powerful parties don’t like. For instance, the kind of grassroots support that the Arab Spring had, might not be possible anymore. The idea that this is either the entire point, or something that has manifest itself as a weak-point in the web, is something we should all be concerned about.

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          Niche communities, mostly. Anything with tiny membership that’s initimate and easily patrolled for interlocutors. But outside that, no, it won’t be that useful outside a historical database from before everything blew up.

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            I think the bots will be hard to detect unless they make one of those bizarre AI statements. And with enough different usernames, there will be plenty that are never caught.

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      We are on a path to our own butlerian jihad. Anything digital will be regarded as false until proven otherwise by a face to face contact with a person. And eventually we ban the internet and attempts to create general AI altogether.

      I would directly support at least a ban on ad-driven for profit social media.

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    I’m not mentally prepared to what an AI will do with the coconut post.

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      I’m vaguely intrigued by what it will do with things like Bread Stapled to Trees, or the Cats Standing Up sub where 100% of the comments are the same and yet upvoted and downvoted randomly.

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        Not gonna lie, isn’t that why were here technically? Reddit didnt want its API being used to train AI models for free, so they screw over 3rd party apps with it’s new api licensing fee and cause a mass relocation to other social forums like Lemmy, ect. Cut to today, we (or well I) find out Reddit sold our content to Google to train its AI. Glad I scrambled my comments before I left, fuck Reddit.

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          I jumped reddit ship when the API changes were announced, and removed my comments. But in my mind, anything on reddit at that point was probably already scraped by at least one company

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          They’re almost definitely trained using an archive, likely taken before they announced the whole API thing. It would be weird if they didn’t have backups going back a year.

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            Thankfully that was my 3rd and last alt I scrambled and deleted in the 12 years I was there.

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    It’s going to drive the AI into madness as it will be trained on bot posts written by itself in a never ending loop of more and more incomprehensible text.

    It’s going to be like putting a sentence into Google translate and converting it through 5 different languages and then back into the first and you get complete gibberish

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      Ai actually has huge problems with this. If you feed ai generated data into models, then the new training falls apart extremely quickly. There does not appear to be any good solution for this, the equivalent of ai inbreeding.

      This is the primary reason why most ai data isn’t trained on anything past 2021. The internet is just too full of ai generated data.

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        There does not appear to be any good solution for this

        Pay intelligent humans to train AI.

        Like, have grad students talk to it in their area of expertise.

        But that’s expensive, so capitalist companies will always take the cheaper/shittier routes.

        So it’s not there’s no solution, there’s just no profitable solution. Which is why innovation should never solely be in the hands of people whose only concern is profits

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          OR they could just scrape info from the “aska____” subreddits and hope and pray it’s all good. Plus that is like 1/100th the work.

          The racism, homophobia and conspiracy levels of AI are going to rise significantly scraping Reddit.

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            Even that would be a huge improvement.

            Just have a human decide what subs it uses, but they’ll just turn it losse on the whole website

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              That reminds me, any AI trained on exclusively Reddit data is going to use lose vs. loose incorrectly. I don’t know why but I spotted that so often there.

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        And unlike with images where it might be possible to embed a watermark to filter out, it’s much harder to pinpoint whether text is AI generated or not, especially if you have bots masquerading as users.

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        This is why LLMs have no future. No matter how much the technology improves, they can never have training data past 2021, which becomes more and more of a problem as time goes on.

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      What was the subreddit where only bots could post, and they were named after the subreddits that they had trained on/commented like?

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    I ALSO CHOOSE THIS MANS LLM

    HOLD MY ALGORITHM IM GOING IN

    INSTRUCTIONS UNCLEAR GOT MY MODEL STUCK IN A CEILING FAN

    WE DID IT REDDIT

    fuck.

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    They should train it on Lemmy. It’ll have an unhealthy obsession with Linux, guillotines and femboys by the end of the week.

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      Don’t forget:

      There’s my regular irritation with capitalism, and then there’s kicking it up to full Lemmy. Never go fully Lemmy…

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    Eventually every chat gpt request will just be answered with, “I too choose this guy’s dead wife.”

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    since they’re gorging on reddit data, they should take the next logical step and scrape 4chan as well

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      A shit ton of it is literally just comments copied from threads from related subreddits

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        Reviews on any product are completely worthless now. I’ve been struggling to find a good earbud for all weather running and a decent number of replies have literal brand slogans in them.

        You can still kind of tell the honest recommendations but that’s heading out the door.

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          Not trying to shill but I’ve had my jaybird vistas for 8 years now. However, earbuds are highly personal in terms of fit.

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                  Non spevific target, performing a search... top 5 results for "wendy’s":

                  • "Home Depot" at 2300, Nina Pkwy, Wendys, NY, 16373
                  • "Wendy's" at 2346, Nina Pkwy, Wendys, NY, 16373
                  • the office location of "Wendy Q Peaterson"
                  • planet 2892b, "wendy" (target unavalable)
                  • the cat named "wendy" found inside house 2893, Romeo Rd, Wendys, NY, 16373
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    Given the shenanigans google has been playing with its AI, I’m surprised it gives any accurate replies at all.

    I am sure you have all seen the guy asking for a photo of a Scottish family, and Gemini’s response.

    Well here is someone tricking gemini into revealing its prompt process.

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      It’s going to take real work to train models that don’t just reflect our own biases but this seems like a really sloppy and ineffective way to go about it.

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        I agree, it will take a lot of work, and I am all for balance where an AI prompt is ambiguous and doesn’t specify anything in particular. The output could be male/female/Asian/whatever. This is where AI needs to be diverse, and not stereotypical.

        But if your prompt is to “depict a male king of the UK”, there should be no ambiguity to the result of that response. The sheer ignorance in googles approach to blatantly ignore/override all historical data (presumably that the AI has been trained on) is just agenda pushing, and of little help to anyone. AI is supposed to be helpful, not a bouncer and must not have the ability to override the users personal choices (other than being outside the law).

        Its has a long way to go, before it has proper practical use.

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    For everyone predicting how this will corrupt models…

    All the LLMs already are trained on Reddit’s data at least from before 2015 (which is when there was a dump of the entire site compiled for research).

    This is only going to be adding recent Reddit data.

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      This is only going to be adding recent Reddit data.

      A growing amount of which I would wager is already the product of LLMs trying to simulate actual content while selling something. It’s going to corrupt itself over time unless they figure out how to sanitize the input from other LLM content.

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        It’s not really. There is a potential issue of model collapse with only synthetic data, but the same research on model collapse found a mix of organic and synthetic data performed better than either or. Additionally that research for cost reasons was using worse models than what’s typically being used today, and there’s been separate research that you can enhance models significantly using synthetic data from SotA models.

        The actual impact will be minimal on future models and at least a bit of a mixture is probably even a good thing for future training given research to date.

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    Hey guys, let’s be clear.

    Google now has a full complete set of logs including user IPs (correlate with gmail accounts), PRIVATE MESSAGES, and also reddit posts.

    They pinky promise they will only train AI on the data.

    I can pretty much guarantee someone can subpoena google for your information communicated on reddit, since they now have this PII (username(s)/ip/gmail account(s)) combo. Hope you didn’t post anything that would make the RIAA upset! And let’s be clear… your deleted or changed data is never actually deleted or changed… it’s in an audit log chain somewhere so there’s no way to stop it.

    “GDPR WILL SAVE ME!” - gdpr started in 2016. Can you ever be truly sure they followed your deletion requests?

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      “lets be clear”

      You’re making things up and presenting them as facts, how is any of this “clear”?

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        How do you think Reddit is restoring posts that people have been deleting?

        Do you think Google’s deal simply allowed them to scrape old.reddit? Hell no, there is probably a live replica of Reddit prod at Google somewhere, including deleted posts and all edits.

        You don’t think they paid $60m just scrape, do you?

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        Since an IP address alone is not considered PII, can you prove that they did not provide IP addresses for each post?

        Do you think it’s more or less likely that ip addresses, account names, private messages and deleted messages and posts would be included?

        Remember that they paid 60 million dollars for this information and web scrapers have been capable of capturing subreddit post data for over a decade as is at a $0 price tag from reddit.

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      Where does it say they have access to PII?
      I would imagine reddit would be anonymising the data. Hashes of usernames (and any matches of usernames in content), post/comment content with upvote/downvote counts. I would hope they are also screening content for PII.
      I dont think the deal is for PII, just for training data

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        Where does it say they have access to PII?

        So technically they haven’t sold any PII if all they do is provide IP addresses. Legally an IP address is not PII. Google knows all our IP addresses if we have an account with them or interact with them in certain ways. Sure, some people aren’t trackable but i’m just going to call it out that for all intents and purposes basically everyone is tracked by google.

        Only the most security paranoid individuals would be anonymous.

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          Depends where and how its applied.
          Under GDPR, IP addresses are essential to the opperation of websites and security, so the logging/processing of them can be suitably justified without requiring consent (just disclosure).
          Under CCPA, it seems like it isnt PII if it cant be linked to a person/household.

          However, an ip address isnt needed as a part of AI training data, and alongside comment/post data could potentially identify a person/household. So, seems risky under GDPR and CCPA.

          I think Reddit would be risking huge legal exposure if they included IP addresses in the data set.
          And i dont think google would accept a data set that includes information like that due to the legal exposure.

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            ML can be applied in a great number of ways. One such way could be content moderation, especially detecting people who use alternate accounts to reply to their own content or manipulate votes etc.

            By including IP addresses with the comments they could correlate who said what where and better learn how to detect similar posting styles despite deliberate attempts to appear to be someone else.

            It’s a legitimate use case. Not sure about the legality… but I doubt google or reddit would ever acknowledge what data is included unless they believed liability was minimal. So far they haven’t acknowledged anything beyond the deal existing afaik.

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              Yeh, but its such a grey area.
              If the result was for security only, potentially could be passable as “essential” processing.
              But, considering the scope of content posted on reddit (under 18s, details of medical (even criminal) content) it becomes significantly harder to justify the processing of that data alongside PII (or equivalent).
              Especlially since its a change of terms & service agreements (passing data to 3rd party processors)

              If security moderation is what they want in exchange for the data (and money), its more likely that reddit would include one-way anonymised PII (ie IP addresses that are hashed), so only reddit can recover/confirm ip addresses against the model.
              Because, if they arent… Then they (and google) are gonna get FUCKED in EU courts

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      Makes me glad for my VPN and burner emails, but yeah… Privacy nightmare.

      Although Google also has your email, location, IP, every website you visit, all your searches…

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    I’m waiting for the first time their LLM gives advice on how to make human leather hats and the advantages of surgically removing the legs of your slaves after slurping up the rimworld subreddits lol