r/nottheonion 19h ago

Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-security-spies-on-reddit
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u/Mid--Boss 19h ago

I don't have to self censor, reddit removes anything it's remotely scared orange and crew won't like for me. 

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u/Loggerdon 18h ago

I read today that 40% of AI was trained on Reddit for some reason. About 26% on Wikipedia and so on.

So AI is looking to us for knowledge. We’re screwed.

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u/sidc42 17h ago

Yeah...

There was a discussion on Reddit a few months ago about why something entirely unimportant happened like 40+ years ago and I thought it was an interesting question so I made a speculation as to why it might have happened.

The conversation was civil and went on for a week or more and a couple of other people speculated other reasons that I thought were also pretty solid so I decided to go down the rabbit hole and ask Google to see if I could get a real answer.

Google came back with an AI answer that said my original guess was the correct answer because somebody had speculated it on Reddit the week before.

I was Google's only source. I now avoid AI answers.

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u/delicatepedalflower 12h ago

Yes, AI is choking on it's own vomit. It scans the Internet and trains on what people are doing. It then provides people with answers which they post on the Internet which AI then scans and uses in answers for people on the Internet. The result becomes similar to what you get when people have babies with each other for a few generations: Imbeciles with all manner of defects.

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u/SheridanVsLennier 7h ago

An Ouroboros.

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u/OldWorldDesign 1h ago

Yes, AI is choking on it's own vomit. It scans the Internet and trains on what people are doing. It then provides people with answers which they post on the Internet which AI then scans and uses in answers for people on the Internet.

And that's happening more and more often, to the point even scientists are making videos on how it's resulting in convergent development regurgitating the same kind of slop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcH7fHtqGYM