Reddit has filed for its IPO. They’ve been preparing for this for a while, squeezing profit out of the platform in any way that they can, like hiking the prices on third-party app developers. More recently, they’ve signed a deal with Google to license their content to train Google’s LLMs.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, we’ve made a Firefox extension that will replace all your comments (older than a certain number of days) with any text that you provide. You can use any text that you want, but please, do not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material. Reddit’s data is uniquely valuable, since it’s not subject to those kinds of copyright restrictions, so it would be tragic if users were to decide to intermingle such a robust corpus of high-quality training data with copyrighted text.

Here’s that extension link again. To all our friends at Reddit, we wish you all the success that you deserve!

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    54 days ago

    What would happened if someone would just continuously post just random words?

    Eg. Continuous Sabbath Tuesday of finishing drain acostum when bright wallow eager posting if granting glee chaos to wind granular evaporates

    And let’s say it’s not just one person but dozens, hundreds. And then they up vote each other, create entire threads of nonsense. And then there are bots doing that.

    At what point becomes such a social media site useless to ai?