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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ive heard the same but I haven't seen real evidence anywhere, so im skeptical. But yes I agree, if they CAN get that data, it means the training data is better-ish....

But we are still on this site for a reason :)

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean... if the reason you left is because you didn't want your data scraped then... the fediverse is one of the worst places to go? Because anyone can run a modified lemmy instance to pull everything through the tools specifically designed to do that.

Let alone just scraping websites that don't have teams of big corporate lawyers.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago

What kinda of data would be valuable that people leave behind on Reddit? Personal information? Personally I don't really do that when it comes to commenting, though Reddit probably knows where I live through my unsecured connection online. When it comes to comments or posts on Reddit, it's not real data anyways because I always lie online.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

It's all relative I guess. I can see why the original GPT's used the Reddit corpus for training. However I've always been a little sceptical about the quality of the training set in any social media given how much it exaggerates the extremes of people's behaviour.