If you've ever posted anything on Reddit, your words are going to be sucked up into an "AI" database. The people who profit from this are Reddit and the "AI" company.
What do you get? Screwed, again, by tech companies that have pure contempt for your privacy and rights.
Considering the “quality” of many (not all) posts on Reddit, I’d say it’s kind of self-defeating for whoever tries to use the data for anything intelligible.
(I’ve been a Redditor x 12 years, & even a mod of a small sub, but c’mon…isn’t the overall principal demographic young male gamers living in basements? Dude!)
I made the mistake of deleting my Reddit account before deleting the (relatively few) posts I'd made there. If you're planning to depart, make sure you delete posts first, account second.
@dangillmor Deleting your posts probably won't remove the actual data, it just makes them invisible to ordinary users. I suspect that they can still sell older snapshots of their data to anyone. Possibly EU users have more protection but IANAL.
I really want to be done with Reddit like I am with the bird site but the alternative in #KBIN just isn't working --- the other alternative #Lemmy is run by some unsavory characters so I'm not going there....
@dangillmor Or, perhaps, replace your comments with the worst LLM-generated garbage you can get a dumb little local model spit out. Or replace them with an homage to one of the greats of computer science academic publishing:
"Get me off your fucking AI training set. Get me off your fucking AI training set. Get me ... "
@dangillmor I used this utility to delete my comments last year when they shut down the API. Won't help your already deleted account, but others may find it helpful. https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite
@dangillmor Deleting posts on Reddit is a myth. Overwrite your posts with things like “Trump is a pedo” before deleting. Give the AI something to chew on.
@dangillmor and folks need to remember that Griswold v Connecticut, which Clarence Thomas made clear he wants to take a shot at, DID NOT ESTABLISH A RIGHT TO BIRTH CONTROL.
It was about birth control so people think that's why it's important. But the reasoning behind it is the court found we have A RIGHT TO PRIVACY in that case.
Clarence Thomas has openly stated he wants to take on Griswold. I promise, he's not interested in doing so to take away birth control. That's just a bonus.
@dangillmor I don't think I have
I appreciate their information (as it's more accessible than having to join many discord servers or other private groups), and it's often information not found anywhere else
But I never bothered to make an account for myself because I don't like how the community treats each other with some things
I do appreciate those who share the information because if they were all like me, nothing would get out there as visibly