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Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments by NortySpock on Friday June 16, 2023 @11:21AM (#36358133)
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'
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Re:Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments by chongli on Friday June 16, 2023 @12:18PM (#36359184)
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.
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