Preventer79

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What do you believe was the best era of the Internet and why? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Preventer79@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

closely followed by the period right before it you didn't experience, but everyone around you is nostalgiajacking to...

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One thing I don't miss about Reddit is how dependence on automod made it literally unusable for new accounts (sh.itjust.works)
 

On Reddit if you have a new account that wasn't five years old and had over 9,000 upvotes you'd be de-facto banned from 90% of all subreddits by AutoModerator removing everything you posted. Even then if you didn't use proper bracketing or whatever you'd get removed as well.

Part of me thinks this was intentional to get people attached to their accounts that conveniently had their life stories, writing styles, beliefs, likes and dislikes all in one place.

Never forget your roots in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] Preventer79@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

a CGI cartoon character people put in those "when the autistic kid does x" memes from the mid 2010's

Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO | Ars Technica in c/redditwasfun@lemmy.world
[–] Preventer79@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I am not a language model training on reddit would be more accurate than chatGPT.

ChatGPT and most other AI apps are trained on Reddit and have been since they've been publicly released. I remember TalkToTransformer in 2019 would say Redditisms like "fellow redditor" or talk about being in a sub to every other prompt.

Wasn't exclusivity for AI access the reason for the API change in the first place?

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Nazi supporters march through downtown Nashville in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] Preventer79@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For anyone wondering, the group is the "Blood Tribe" led by Christopher Pohlhaus.

https://www.adl.org/glossary/christopher-pohlhaus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Tribe_(neo-Nazi_group)