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Why would any AI company pay for this when they already took all of reddit's data up until the APIpocalypse last year? Are they worried about staying current with the latest stale memes?
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Think about how many user profiles are on Reddit.
A company could easily create personas out of the "higher quality" profiles and test any number of products/services against these personas before ever bringing said product/service to market.
Getting the opinion of (most likely) tens of thousands of "people" like that is worth an easy 60 million each year for fresh data to pump in.
Your idea of what AI can do is limited to memes, which is why you can't fathom what someone would do with a dataset like that.
There's also the very real chance that those people are all idiots. Poors (especially Americans) always like to believe that rich people are smart, which is why they're rich.
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But...they already have that dataset from 2006 - 2023. Have redditors gotten more rslured or more commercially viable in the last 8 months?
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I think we all know the answer to that question.
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It's probably a futile attempt from a losing AI competitor to try and catch up.
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Live interaction? Imagine running AI persuasion accounts, and not only having up-to-the-minute profiles on each user you message, but being able to monitor their future behaviour and check how much you influenced them. Or you target a certain thread with a specific narrative and see how many accounts who viewed that thread disseminated said narrative over the next week.
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too r-slurred to find out beforehand that the data was freely available. could be, lots of money in the hands of idiots
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This is why they shut down Pushshift and third party apps btw, so they can sell the data for extortionate amounts instead![:marseymoney: :marseymoney:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseymoney.webp)
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10 years too late. Redditors were literally testing machine learning for free on there for years. /r/chernovchains and subredditsimulator are some that come to mind. The site is still highly trafficked so there's that. Their userdata value per user is remarkably less than any other social media company. Curious to see if these moves have inflated their value. Talk about an awfully managed company, though.
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Allowing everyone to use the internet was a horrible mistake.
I didn't realize that the Reddit IPO is apparently happening in March. Is it possible to short an IPO because there is no way in heck that reddit is actually worth 10 bil.
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P.S. They probably meant integrated cartridges and are too stupid to know the difference.
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It's totally been happening since 10 years ago.
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A reddit IPO just flew over my house (again)
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I'll give them $200 but they need to reopen /r/cringeanarchy and /r/youtubedeepfakes.
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Remember when Facebook was valued at like 60 billion and crashed immediately?
You buy the IPO and dump it the minute it goes public. R-slurs will buy as soon as it goes public, cause a spike then the IPO holders dump on top of them causing a crash.
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Oh man has wall street not learned yet that these social media company IPOs are super inflated and r-slurred as all shit? Here we go again.
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why are you using blockquote instead of >
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What is the difference?
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Buy puts that expire 3-16 months later depending on your risk tolerance?
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difficult. you need a broker with lots of greater fools who immediately buy reddit shares, so that you can borrow those as early as possible. getting the negative delta is probably easier via options.
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Ruh roh artists whom post to reddit. I sure hope they've read the tos....
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What about art that was posted by a 3rd party? Lmao this stuff is going to make lawyers a lot of money.
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Already happening, Mistral's text models are good but clearly ate _way_ too much reddit. Unless this plague can be contained, our AI-ruled future is grim indeed.
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A big problem with response-generating AI is that most of them have a built in "I am a character who knows that I am a machine learning model, and has a cheerful personality..." that is intentionally hard to remove with prompt injection.
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Operation reBIPOC 2 is go
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dude fjroyth lmao
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Cant wait for the redditors seethe.
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LMAO nice, they've set the value of their content at essentially pennies for tech companies
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There's a bunch of tech bros named Scale AI who have been trying to get cheap labor for LLMs but all they can get are indians and pakistanis since first worlders aren't interested ($30 to train their models with writing) so I look forward to the Scale AI garbage output.
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hncels are so r-slurred i swear
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AI companies should just scrape reddit content for free
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Dear w*stoid.
You useless piece of shit. You absolute waste of space and air. You uneducated, ignorant, idiotic dumb swine, you're an absolute embarrassment to humanity and all life as a whole. The magnitude of your failure just now is so indescribably massive that one hundred years into the future your name will be used as an insult by edgy twelve year olds. Even if all of humanity put together their collective intelligence there is no conceivable way they could have thought up a way to frick up on the unimaginable scale you just did. When Jesus died for our sins, he must not have seen the sac religious act we just witnessed you performing, because if he did he would have forsaken humanity long ago so that your birth may have never become reality. After you die, your skeleton will be displayed in a museum after being scientifically researched so that all future generations may learn not to generate your bone structure, because every tiny detail anyone may have in common with you degrades them to a useless piece of trash and a burden to society. We might as well never have formed the phantom thieves, because surely not any amount of rotten adults would be able to affect the world as negatively as you just did. The only reason I am not reporting you to the police as we speak is that I know for a fact that their weak, pathetic prisons will never be able to hold such an indescribable evil. No wonder your dad beat you when you were little, it turns out he was trying to guard the world from the colossal mistake he had created. Kamoshida had every right to break your leg, because he was only trying to immobilize the incredible failure that is you so that your terrible mistakes may not spread to innocent foreign countries all over the world. He has not succeeded though, because your indescribable failure was on such an incredibly ginormous scale, that not even the possible life forms at the edge of the universe could have been guarded from it. Your birth made it so that mankind is worse of in every way you can possibly imagine, and you have made it so that society can never really recover into a state of organization. Everything has forever fallen into a bewildering chaos, through which unrecognizable core, you can only find misfortune. I would say the apocalypse is upon us but this is merely the closest word humans have for the sheer scale of horror that is now reality. You have forever condemned everyone you love and know into an eternal state of suffering, worse than any human concept of heck. I may not be a human, but I will forever have more humanity than you, for you are truly a wretched, horrible, filthy, evil monster because of what you just did. No wonder society rejected you: you were eventually going to break it beyond recognition. You are such an unholy being, that if you step within a one hundred foot radius of a holy place or a place that has ever been deemed important by anyone, your distorted sac religious soul will ruin whatever meaning it ever had beyond repair. You are an idiotic, shiteating, dumbass ape and no one has ever loved you. The phantom thieves and the world would have been so much better of if you had never joined us. You say you want to help the world but then you destroy everything everyone has ever worked for to such an extreme extent immediately when you have the chance? You are a lying, backstabbing, cowardly useless piece of shit and I hate you with every single part of my being. We could just have you replace Satanael, except even Satan is not that evil, and because of his high stats he at least lands a fricking attack! Even this worlds finest writers and poets from throughout the ages could never hope to accurately describe the scale on which you just fricked up, and how incredibly idiotic you are. Anyone that believes in any religion out there should now realize that they have been wrong this entire time, for if there was a god, he would never have allowed a being such as you to stain the earth and this universe. In the future there will be horror movies made about you, with the scariest part of them being that the viewer has to realize that such an indescribable monster actually exists, and that the horrific events from the movie have actually taken place in the same world that they live in right now. In the future, YouTube videos will get demonetized for making a sound that even resembles your name, and social media posts will get flagged and taken down for daring to speak about a topic like you. You are the absolute embodiment of everything that has ever been wrong on this earth, yet you manage to make it so that that is only a small part of the evil that is your being. Never in the history of mankind has there been anyone that could have predicted such an eldrich abomination, but here you are. It's hard to believe that I am seeing such an incredible failure with my own eyes, but here I am, so unfortunately I cannot deny your existence. Even if I did my very best, my vocabulary is not able to describe the sheer magnitude of the idiotic mistake that is you. Even if time travel some day will be invented, there still would not be a single soul willing to go back in time to before this moment to fix history, because having to witness such incredible horrors if they failed would have to many mental and physical drawbacks that not even the bravest soul in history would be willing to risk it. I cannot imagine the pure dread your mother must have felt when she had to carry a baby for nine months and then giving birth to such a wretched monster as you. Not a single word of the incoherent, illogical rambling you may be wanting to do to defend yourself or apologize would ever be able to make up for what you just did. The nations of this world would have wanted to
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