But here, the API is open and I can run my own copy and train my own LLM same as anyone else. It's not one asshole who decides to whom and for how much he'll sell the content we all gave him for free, so he can justify his $193 million paycheck.
Damn. You outsmarted them well paid data jockeys. And assuming your edits change the actual comment and don’t simply hide the original.
I could be an idiot too though. Reddit might have been running this whole shit show on the original version of the database system and be upselling to buyers.
Will be interesting to see if they stoop so low as to allow this. Probably wouldn't be a super wise move as most deleted posts are likely material that would not be great to train on anyway.
My first thought when I read this was, "well, not on MY posts" I'm clean off of reddit.
There are torrents of complete Reddit comment archives available for any random person who wants them, I'm sure Reddit themselves has a comprehensive edit history of everything.
I used redact.dev to mass edit all my comments, worked pretty well. Problem is that if you mass delete, they'll restore them pretty quick, but so far they haven't reverted my edits.
Back when I deleted all my comments, I was told I could claim to be in Europe and make a request citing the European law that Reddit has to follow. I think Reddit had a page where you could make the request, but of course it was hard to find.