Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
by comboy on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:39AM
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The data is already there.
People will get bored with manipulations and they can just ignore current timespan.
Even currently, creative individuals is 0.01% of users which is easy to spot with simple heuristics especially given such a small percentage and the fact that false positives don't hurt.
Detecting automated / fake content and silently marking it is probably 90% of what coders do there even without the drama. I think they are pretty decent at it.
Even if they couldn't distinguish fake content, there's a good chance neither could its buyers so nobody cares.
I just think it's a bad fight to choose.
Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
by NortySpock on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:21AM
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Costs more money to develop and run a ChatGPT bot than it is to say
UPDATE comments WITH SKIPLOCK
SET _soft_deleted_time = null
WHERE _soft_deleted_time > '2023-05-01'
Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
by chongli on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:18PM
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Why not shut down the whole site then? They already have an archive of everything from before then. The question is what you do about future content? If it can no longer be trusted then it’s worthless as a dataset for training.
There's many different things to do that could trash the data and make it worthless for training AI. With the right tools, this sort of automation can also be made very difficult to detect (randomize the time interval between edits and the time of day on which they occur [normally distributed during prime time]).