Let’s take a moment to appreciate all the advice that u/[deleted] has given us throughout the years.
Reminds me, I ran a script to edit all my comments before deleting them all when I left years ago.
Run it again. Those scripts take a few rounds and still my not get it all, because reddit doesn’t always show your full comment history, even to a script.
They can still recover it. There was some guy here in lemmy who was a huge answer man on some tech community. During the appocalypse he scrubbed his account 3 times before deleting his account. Went to check like a week later and all his answers had been restored.
Not sure why anyone really expect companies to allow then to use their own tools to screw them. All that data is backed up several times even if the delete actually deletes the comment and edit actually replaces the comment. But it can even be better for performance reasons to just remove the reference or point the comment content at a new comment while the old remains somewhere. Writing a script to undo the mass deletions/edits might have been trivial if they also keep a record of the previous data in the comment’s db entry.
Even the legally required ones only really matter if an audit catches them and the consequences are steep. And the auditor isn’t willing to look away because of some sort of kickbacks or job offers after their time auditing.
It’s all gone now and the account was deleted. This was a few years back. But I do remember getting a bunch of auto mod messages about modifying my comments and them being removed for doing so. Probably because the edit was to “fuck /u/spez”
In another 12 years, those will all be ChatGPT replies too!
Do you mean “in another 0 years” because reddit is at least 50% bots, possibly as high as 70% depending on the study
but the bots were obvious until they started using LLMs, which was probably around 2022 that it became common…
Reddit’s /r/changemyview was revealed to be a social experiment carried out by some university, and LLMs/bots were 99% more effective than human speakers in persuading others that their viewpoints were right.
Take that information and roll with it into Edward Bernays methodology of psychology-based advertising and you’ll see what Modern Reddit (RIP Schwartz) actually is.
ChatGPT recycles those very same 11 year old Reddit posts, with a 20% chance of making up the complete opposite, just because.
Good news, so does ChatGPT lol
Always ask for source
Asking an LLM to cite its sources is like asking a street-drug dealer where the drugs are grown/manufactured. They don’t know, and if they did they wouldn’t tell you.
That doesn’t mean much, sources get hallucinated too
Ask the AI to read the sources for you too, just to be safe
I did find it funny one time when I got a solution for a problem from ai at work, and then later found the almost word for word solution in stack overflow. Like this is just a search engine but with higher sea level rise and rainforest clearcutting when you use it!
It’s a search engine that you already have to know the answer to use.
It is like a search engine that will randomly spit out something correct (a human’s work), wrong, or sadly wrong.
With every response to a prompt you get to figure out the relative level of bullshit or propaganda.
Google also making search worse so people will use their slop machine instead
It seems like Google Fu for people without Google Fu
Often it is exactly the same as the top stack overflow answer. Sometimes it throws in some extra shit to make it incorrect though, so you have to scroll down and click on the SO link, which is what you would have done before all of this nonsense anyway.
Less ads though.
Not for long. Its called enshittification.
Not for long. Its called enshittification.
Do people think it’s something else!?
Idk I was on reddit 11 years ago and I wouldn’t trust any shit I posted back then…
Okay fine, anyone from 11 years ago EXCEPT trainguyrom
Now that’s a sentiment I can get behind!
Um, LLMs were trained on that 11 year old post tho
Yeah, but they were also trained on tons of other incorrect, useless bullshit, so
The point I’m making is that reddit is also shit.
The internet has always been a cesspool of uselessness with a few gold nuggets to find. Some of the best information out there was in those old posts, from Usenet to Reddit, buried in shit.
When search engines actually indexed and crawled without the advertising algorithms you could find stuff. But for the past 6 years reddit has been shit, and search has been shittier longer. Now when you visit reddit you’re helping to fund fascists.
So the hallucinating LLMs were trained on garbage, so it’s shit on top of shit.
Quite sad
Yup, reddit is a shithole.
Lemmy, but yeah, same idea
I’m not sure I’d trust 11 year old Lemmy answers.
If the point of this is that both are equally trustworthy then I agree.
Well where do you think AI got its info from LOL
I trust AI to be one thing.
wrong.
Except Reddit IS all AI posts now. Dead internet
theoryrealtiy.that’s why “from 11 years ago”
True. But is the user accoint from 11 years ago. Or are you comparing an interesting from 11 years ago to AI today.
from 11 years ago
