Reddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders.
@theluddite They do cleaning on data they injest. It could be easy to detect. What would be far worse would be to use AI to generate plausible looking comments instead thereby causing overfitting as you cannot train AI on AI (well you can but it wrecks your model).
a plugin that replaces each comment with a random paragraph from wikipedia that's had 10% of the nouns swapped out, and 10% of any numeric figures adjusted by +/- 80%.
@NatureMC hah. also a good idea. well, I've made an agreement to myself that if I ever go slinking back to having a r*ddit account, I will modify a post-expiration script to do something like this. @theluddite
If anyone installs it let me know — I’d love to see how it does on your pages/posts. Don’t worry, it doesn’t alter your content in the database but garbles it on-visit by #LLM bots. Cheers!
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