the AI ran out of Reddit slop material to scan, because reddit has been purging alot of content/accounts even suspected of spamming, so they go for physical books now.
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books are better sources imho.
pretty much why they go for books.
that's what I'm saying. I've never understood the hoopla of reddit selling it's corpus, aside from being fucking gross (spot on for spez) it's a shitton of garbage. there's gold in there, but it's absolutely buried in shite
For an AI to troubleshoot problems with your computer (something it's really good at today), it needs content like reddit's. Books don't and won't detail weird software issues and their workarounds. One the current training set becomes irrelevant to whatever software people are running, this is a specific area where Reddit's data is way more valuable than books.
Of course Reddit locking down access to that information leads to fewer people contributing. Reddit is dead, it's just struggling to go down.
there’s gold in there, but it’s absolutely buried in shite
yep, there is a lot of nuanced depth, but measured against the overall sea of chuds lol... and yep, the moment they started putting up walls and controlling the community it was doomed. it's gonna thrash for a while then, when the only ones left are advertisers and bots, it'll shit itself and stop twitching.
im guessing reddit has been banning so aggressively lately, that AI scraping isnt getting as much "useful data" as much anymore (chatgtp/google dropped "references for reddit in thier slop summaries). so they are trying to force logins now to keep up with the user generated content so they can squeeze every last penny they can from reddit, i dont think ads were ever a big presence in reddit? its the data. people try to post content, like posts, subreddits, those can instantly get removed by redit filters. i think lost alot of traffic recently to, which was likely AI scraping.
hopefully it'll push them to put up more walls and alienate the last nugget of humans using it.
I guess the next step is picking specific people to memorize specific books and pass that knowledge down to an assistant/acolyte who will keep the memories alive. Rinse and repeat. Fahrenheit 451 anybody?
seveneves - Sonar Taxlaw
Fahrenheit 451 ass
I hate this timeline... It's things like this that make me hope we actually do live in a simulation, and the devs are about to release a major bug fix...
Getting rid of physical copies of books so we can be monthly subscription slaves, disgusting
It's worse than that. I'm sure they're getting wet dreams about eradicating as many books as possible so that they can finally sell AI slop books at a premium price, claiming that will be "the last way to get something in [author] style!".
I'm rather thinking that hey want to make their slop machines the single source of truth. Much easier to get control over information, when all information is located in your own house.
Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanently monopolized on private servers’
Not only that, of course, but easily edited. It's a "mandala effect" generator. AKA modern gaslighting. They name the thing, point to legitimate examples, then abuse our new "understanding" to cover their crimes. 1984 indeed.
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia
"mandala" effect
You sure you remember that name correctly?
Dang it, they changed it again!
I love where the headline cuts of:
knowledge is permanent - ly monopolized on private servers
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