Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry

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[–]rubberbiscuit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Oh, this is a ton of far left ideology data to sway an entire generation? FTC will find nothing to see here!

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just far left ideology? What about the time they turned a blind eye to net neutrality? You can call that a "right wing" ideology.

[–]Goingoutforawalk 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

After hearing that, I am so glad I quit reddit months ago.

[–]xoenix 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That data is a biohazard.

[–]neolib[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Archived: https://archive.is/sN5bg

[–]BumBumCock 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What makes you so sure, Saidit ain't doing the same thing? 😏

[–]neolib[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think they can scrape Saidit for free - it doesn't have resources for defense from that apart from Cloudflare. I mean even Edward with his lame bot could scrape 200k Saidit posts (according to his words, I didn't see the data).

[–]HibikiBlack 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't know why people don't support alternatives more often given the corruption everywhere. It has become a new battlefield and a lot of people are asleep when it comes to taking responsibility for the way information is handled.

[–]LordoftheFlies 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Partly because those alternatives just don't have the breadth and depth of content, built up over nearly two decades, and partly because those alternatives draw a bunch of trash content like bot spam, which the admins then have to put extra (unpaid) work into dealing with or risk the real content just drowning and disappearing altogether.

[–]RedditButt 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reddit is already drowning in bot spam, and they let it happen, because it makes them money.