Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models

Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ItsAFake@lemmus.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You really think they don’t have your original comments stored?

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  • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s literally been proven that they do. A guy here on Lemmy was a very common poster on some tech support subreddit. He used one of those account scrubbers and deleted his account. He went back to look a few weeks later and all his comments were back.

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    • Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I didn’t delete my account but I used a script to edit all my messages to say that I have left because of the attack on 3rd party apps and when I check now they all still say that.

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      • XTornado@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The point is doesn’t matter what is visible, they could be storing all the comments edit history and simply not show it.

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      • EdibleFriend@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And they didn’t bother to restore you because you probably weren’t useful to make it a community look attractive. He was so after he scrubbed his account, possibly with the exact same tool you did, they put everything back.

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because of GDPR, there should be a way to completely wipe your account

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  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah. At most they’d mark the comments as inactive, hide from the user accessible areas and maybe anonymize the user id. But they definitely have the username table and the data still in the system, 100%, just waiting for the right offer.

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh my sweet summer child

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• mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Instead of scrubbing, wordbomb them to screw up any AI training

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  • FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are archives of all Reddit comments that are collected at the time of posting, all the deletion and scrubbing and whatnot people are doing months or years after the fact doesn't affect those.

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Deleted”.

  Good one!!

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