Its a bit old, but I just learned it via the retro-dodo article here: https://retrododo.com/google-is-killing-retro-dodo/
Is it just me or are 60 million a ridiculously small price for that whole dataset?
How quickly you forget that half of it is just “I also choose this guy’s wife” and “the narwhal bacon’s at midnight”
Considering it’s all full of Nazis and bots, and if you get to filter all of them out you’re left with reposts and low quality memes followed by comments that represent the hostile side of each of us… I’d say anything over $5 is a good deal for spez.
Now, I hope Google uses this data exclusively for detecting inappropriate answers. Can you imagine it giving answers based on the endless threads i of " I’m not your mate, bro; I’m not your bro, dude…".
I’m personally curious whether Reddit actually has any ability to protect that database. I don’t remember Reddit TOS, but usually those things give them license to use and copy the data, maybe even to sell it, but not actually the copyright on it. So if someone made a Reddit scraper and copied the comments, wouldn’t only the actual commenter be able to sue?
$60M may be reflecting that, in that it’s more a convenience fee to shield Google against individual Redditors going after them than something that Reddit itself could actually sue over.
It’s more than they were making from third party apps, hence the ridiculous API fees.
Google: “I’m looking to make an AI that’s incredibly opinionated, confidently incorrect, and prone to circlejerk behaviors.”
Spez: “I mean OpenAI pretty much did that already, but if you want to pay me to recreate that then I got you.”
Can’t wait to see an AI chatbot in my Google searches that behaves like a typical redditor.
“Hey Google AI, could you help me find a way to do _____?”
“Why the hell would you want that? Are you stupid? There’s like 15 better ways to accomplish what I think your peanut brain is trying to accomplish.”
“… nevermind Google.”
I mean one of the most popular search types on Google is <topic + Reddit> so not much would change
Just wait till the LLM starts “singing” randomly to you.
– Hey Google/reddit, what does xxxxxx mean?
–Wtf is people so lazy, Google it yourself it’s only 5 seconds!
–But but, you are Google, are you not?
–Buahaha , haha!
Wait until it bans you.
AI be like “stfu regard”
AI be like there things are over they’re
Can someone point me the way of that bot or whatever that changes all your old Reddit posts before deleting them? I thought I had it saved somewhere but I can’t find it now and have no idea what it’s called.
I deleted my comment history after the API exodus. I’m sure they could dig it up if they wanted but at least they’ll have to click like 3 more buttons if they want to train AI on my nonsense.
Before:
SELECT * FROM `comments` WHERE is_deleted=0;After:
SELECT * FROM `comments`;
I hope AI sais fuck Spez a lot:-)
You can be sure the little fucker hired people to filter out that sort of stuff from the data
is there a way to mass delete my old content? the service i used in the past doesn’t seem to have worked. i recently got a reply from a 6 year-old post from someone saying they got there on google.
My understanding is that the mass delete you did probably had worked, but reddit rolled back your deletions. I heard it happened to a lot of mass deleters after the lemmy exodus.
Can we still mass edit our previous comments with random stuff, a little bit at a time to avoid detection? Poison the data, yada yada.
I think I’m gonna be sick. so all the stuff I wrote, it’s just THERE? what the fuck do i do? what about private info that I dont want on a public fucking search engine?? I’ve had that account since I was a kid, there’s a lot of shit I regret posting, what the FUCK!
Google cached it maybe?
*your posts
That’s not great news when weighed against my desire to watch reddit crash and burn.
All we can do is make something better, reddit will do their thing and we will do ours.
Minimum royalty laws should exist.
I wonder how they will decide how to dole that out to their contributors… oh, wait.
It’s self hosted plus open source, or barbarism.
You think… “Y sucks, I’m switching to Z”.
But Z just is biding its time till it can be Y. The most principled owners in existence have a finite life span. It is only a matter of time till the vultures put their claws into anything.
Gabe is gonna die, steam is gonna be fucked. We should have all started with Good Old Games. But we didn’t. But it’s not to late to switch. To be free with your software. Don’t be like me, wishing you had been smarter before.
It’s okay, better now then never.
It’s* a bit old
Cunt
