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I can’t wait for redditors to see the opportunity to poison ChatGTP hard.
They might not even have to. I bet there are bots already having entire discussions by themselves on there.
Anti Commercial-AI license
/r/subredditsimulator
The license does not apply to posts and replies in Reddit, right? Thank god I created a blog to post about any stuff that I want, without license or restrictions from Reddit. Before the AI breakthrough and what happened to Reddit. But even if so, do AI tools understand such a license text and evaluate if they can or cannot use the material?
No, that user has the license on all of their comments
So, this is the fun part: AI tools don’t auto-ingest material to process it. The developers choose the materials to feed into the models.
And while the tech bros can understand your licenses, they don’t give a flying fuck, because they think they’ll be billionaires beyond consequences by the time anyone discovers that their work in particular has been ripped off.
Well the companies and developers don’t decide for every single material. In example what I expect is, that they program the scraper with rules to respect licenses of individual projects (such as on Github probably). And I assume those scraper tools are AI tools themselves, programmed with AI tool assist on top of it. There are multiple AI layers!
At this point, I don’t think that any developer knows exactly what the AI tools are fed with, if they use automatically scraped public sources from the internet.
From what I understand LLMs are just large heuristic machines. They gather a lot of statistics on token order and return an answer to that with something that statistically should higher than other options. There’s no “understanding”. So to answer your question, no, they don’t understand the license.
Content is most likely scraped wholesale from websites, possibly run through some clean up to possibly filter out absolute garbage, and fed into an LLM to train it. An LLM can be tricked to reveal its training data (e.g repeat “fruit” forever). It’s in those cases where copyright infringement is detected and if action can and has be taken. There are court cases currently in review, the most popular being the one against Github Copilot for infringing on the license of sourcecode it ingested.
Anti Commercial-AI license
So what I am reading is that I should open a few Reddit accounts and start replying to posts with random excerpts from Master P era dirty south lyrics en masse.
ChatGPT says:
Huh… Will this message then get re-ingested by chatgpt? Did it just poison itself?
I feel like the ingest system will be sophisticated enough to throw away pieces of text that begin with a message like “ChatGPT says”. Probably even stuff that follows the “paragraph with assumptions and clarifications followed by a list followed by a brief conclusion” structure - everything old has been ingested already, and most of the new stuff containing this is probably AI generated.
Thanks to a few centuries of upper nobility, we already know that marrying your cousin for several generations is not always a good idea. It’ll be interesting to see what happens after a few iterations of AIs being trained on data mostly produced by other AIs (or variations of themselves). I suppose it largely depends on how well the training data can be curated.
So you’re saying instead of tacking “site:reddit.com” onto my Google search, I can now use ChatGPT to get the same information, except without the original context, and it will often be wrong? Amazing!
And this also means that companies will fill Reddit with fake comments promoting their brand to ensure that their brand gets mentioned in ChatGPT responses, right? Can’t wait!
don’t worry, google also has a partnership with reddit! why doesn’t reddit just have an open api like they used to? good question!
Reddit CEO
Steve HuffmansaysBut refuses to pay the users or at least moderators who build Reddit to what it is now. Instead, it pushes more advertisements and sells data to AI companies for millions of Dollars.
And he will continue to do so as long as people keep using the platform. Seems to work well for him.
I can’t even really blame them, to be honest. It’s just a shame it has to be this way
Also hinders mods, users and especially disabled people to do their work.
I’ve made a note to ask for the pay when I see mod postings. Luckily I’m finding more and more mod postings so there’s lots of opportunities to remind mods that they’re lining Reddits pockets for free.
At this rate I’ll be having a Lemmy user superiority complex in no time
You don’t think LLMs are being trained off of this content too? Nobody needs to bother “announcing a deal” for it, it’s being freely broadcast.
(I’m on New Game++++ now)