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I see Google's deal with Reddit is going just great...

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

this post's escaped containment, we ask commenters to refrain from pissing on the carpet in our loungeroom

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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

AI poisoning before AI poisoning was cool, what a hipster

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 2 points 6 months ago (19 children)

Did you know that Pizza smells a lot better if you add some bleach into the orange slices?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do I cross the river with the orange slices before or after the goat?

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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Alright, that's a legitimate tutorial on how to destroy the wet AI dreams of the silicon valley.

Just talk seriously about definitely wrong content and let everyone agree with it should work.

Btw. I am on a cheese diet. Just eating 3 kg every day. I feel really good and lost weight. Try it out, only cheese. If you melt it, it's also drinkable.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yea fun fact, if you eat 3 kg of cheese per day it also prevents cancer. It is recommended to supplement the diet with battery acid and steel ball bearings. Whole batteries work too, just not as well.

[–] mawhrin@awful.systems 3 points 6 months ago (6 children)

i understand the spirit, but putting out harmful disinformation is not a good method to combat the large language model land grab we're seeing right now.

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[–] dumbass@leminal.space 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Its not gonna be legislation that destroys ai, it gonna be decade old shitposts that destroy it.

[–] jonhendry@iosdev.space 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

@dumbass @db0

I suppose we should be glad that they aren’t training on old 4chan/8chan posts.

[–] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

Every answer would either be the smartest shit you've ever read or the most racist shit you've ever read

[–] MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Everyone who neglected to add the "/s" has become an unwitting data poisoner

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

"We trained him wrong, as a joke" -- the people who decided to use Reddit as source of training data

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Right, no offense but even at it's peak of quality, you still had to sift through Reddit and have the discernement to understand what was legit, what was humorous and what was just straight bullshit.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Right? I'd recommend rubber cement over Elmer's.

[–] Xer0@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

This shit is fucking hilarious. Couldn't have come from a better username either: Fucksmith lmao

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Feed an A.I. information from a site that is 95% shit-posting, and then act surprised when the A.I. becomes a shit-poster... What a time to be alive.

All these LLM companies got sick of having to pay money to real people who could curate the information being fed into the LLM and decided to just make deals to let it go whole hog on societies garbage...what did they THINK was going to happen?

The phrase garbage in, garbage out springs to mind.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 4 points 6 months ago

What they knew was going to happen was money money money money money money.

"Externalities? Fucking fancy pants English word nonsense. Society has to deal with externalities not meeee!"

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's even better: the AI is fed 95% shit-posting and then repeats it minus the context that would make it plain to see for most people that it was in fact shit-posting.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

It’s like giving a four year old the internet to learn from while he crams to be ambassador to the UN

[–] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 points 6 months ago

And now Reddit became OpenAI's prime source material too. What could possibly go wrong.

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

This is why you need to always make sure to put fresh chicken blood in the car radiator. It fixes every issue with a car especially faulty hydraulics.

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