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And once again, we see the real mechanism by which terrorism “wins”. Israel has hurt itself in its confusion.

I think there’s a significant difference between “neutral” and “diverse”.

For example, Reddit is big enough that if you find yourself holding an unpopular opinion in some particular subreddit and you’re getting battered with downvotes, you can probably find some other similar subreddit that’s more friendly to whatever view you’ve got that’s drawing ire. People speak derisively of “bubbles” and “echo chambers”, but really, why should I stick around and try to engage with people who just don’t want you around? Communities naturally tend to segregate themselves along ideological lines like this.

Here on the Fediverse the population’s too small to support quite so many diverse communities yet, unfortunately. So if you’ve got an unpopular minority view you can end up stuck with either routinely finding yourself serving as a punching bag or just not posting. That’s no fun.

To be fair, that description of being piled on by angry people who are looking for an excuse to be angry could easily describe a lot of threads I’ve been in on the Fediverse lately. Seems like there’s an unfortunate mood going around right now.

That’s a stopgap measure. The root problem is the electorate and I’m really not sure how to fix that.

Perhaps the best way to “Trump proof” the transatlantic relationship is to accept that the transatlantic relationship is not an immutable fact of nature and be ready for it to maybe fall apart someday.

Boycott your votes for Biden until he stops this Genocide.

Because Trump will be so much better for the Palestinians.

Same here in Canada.

I’d be curious what the “cutoff” date is for eligibility for this. It could be that they generated the list of accounts they’d be sending this offer to some time ago, and OP deleted his account after that point.

The movie “Bender’s Big Score” recontextualized Jurassic Bark and made it much nicer.

If all Russia has to do to get people to back off is cry “escalation!” Then might as well just surrender to them now.

Academic Torrents has Reddit data up to December 2023. This data isn’t live-updated, my understanding is that it’s scraped when it’s first posted. That’s how services like removeddit worked, it would show the “original” version of a post or comment from when it was scraped rather than the edited or deleted version that Reddit shows now.

The age isn’t really the most important thing when it comes to training a base AI model. If you want to teach it about current events there are better ways to do that than social media scrapes. Stuff like Reddit is good for teaching an AI about how people talk to each other.

Things should get better when Betelgeuse goes supernova.

Where do I go to buy Lemmy Gold?

Frankly, these NATO expansions and its general re-invigoration are a larger loss for Russia than anything they could possibly gain in Ukraine. Their Baltic fleet is now useless. Kaliningrad is useless.

Combined with all the other damage Ukraine has inflicted on Russia, they’re basically spiralling the drain and I see no possible way Russia could rise in prominence in the future. Even if goodness forbid they were to “win” the current war they’re fighting with Ukraine, that won’t help them, it’ll only hurt Ukraine.

Which is why nobody trains on ONLY AI generated data.

Really, experts have thought of this stuff already. Because they’re experts. Synthetic data means that the amount of “real” data required is much less, so giant repositories like Reddit aren’t so important.

They’re paying Reddit to not sue them.

Regardless, the content that’s available through PS is the content that people are talking about overwriting or deleting. They can’t edit or delete stuff that PushShift couldn’t see in the first place.

Reddit’s surely got a copy of the PushShift archives, it’ll have all the pre-sabotage versions of those comments.

In case you didn’t know, you can’t train an AI on content generated by another AI because it causes distortion that reduces the quality of the output.

This is incorrect in the general case. You can run into problems if you do it incorrectly or in a naive manner. But this is stuff that the professionals have figured out months or years ago already. A lot of the better AIs these days are trained on “synthetic data”, which is data that’s been generated by other AIs.

I’ve seen a lot of people fall for wishful thinking on this subject. They don’t like AI for whatever reason, they hear some news article that says something that sounds like “AI won’t work because of problem X”, and so they grab hold of that. “Model collapse” is one of those things, it’s not really a problem that serious researchers consider insurmountable.

If you don’t want Reddit to use your posts to train AI then don’t post on Reddit. If you already did post on Reddit, it’s too late, you already gave them your content. Bear this in mind next time you join a social media site, I guess.

Somewhere in between, sure. But don’t interpret that to mean that the most likely real number is exactly in the middle. I consider Russian numbers to be way less credible.

So contact them about that, then. Sue them if you’re sufficiently offended. This doesn’t change anything. If they were GDPR-compliant before they’re still GDPR-compliant, if they weren’t GDPR-compliant then they still aren’t. My point is that this AI training stuff has nothing to do with that.

If they were GDPR-compliant before, I don’t see how they’ve changed to not be GDPR-compliant now. They allow people to delete their accounts and their posts if they wish, which removes all identifying information from their system.

Frankly, this looks like just a “I just hate Reddit! There’s gotta be something I can hit them with!” flailing attempt to me.

If the anti-human interests do poorly, humanity benefits. You lose your investment, but since humanity benefits that’s still overall a good thing.

If the anti-human interests do well, then your investment portfolio does well too so at least that’s a bit of compensation for the fall of humanity.