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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by rifung on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @12:25PM (#14805474)
What bad things have come out of it?
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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by bredren on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @12:29PM (#14805507)
This isn't necessarily a good or bad thing, but the sheer number of people and crawlable public content it is an ever-growing training dataset for AI. This has potential to be dangerous.
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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by komali2 on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @01:33PM (#14806110)
If you are going to make that point, you must concede the equal potential for it to be the opposite of dangerous (vergy very good :P )
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Re:How a Reddit forum has become a lifeline to opioid addict... by stevekemp on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @12:46PM (#14805646)
Boston bomber(s) witch-hunt, springs to mind. Not to mention the whole jailbait expose.
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