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Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by monocasa on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @05:40PM (#46449091)
The causal users (to say nothing of the the massive uptick in bot traffic) are some of the more useless data from an AI training perspective.
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Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by satvikpendem on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @05:43PM (#46449124)
Again, this is a techie take. Lots of people for example use ChatGPT for personal therapy and guess which subs their training data comes from, r/relationships etc. Those trying to use them for other means are comparatively less frequent.
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Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by monocasa on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:55PM (#46468677)
When I say casual, I mean youtube style comments where people just post memes rather than engaging, thoughtful content for whatever niche they're in. Which is essentially noise for training data.

Your interpretation of casual as stuff like r/relationships is itself "techie talk".

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Re:OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble question... by satvikpendem on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:58PM (#46468702)
Sure, memes aren't useful but I suspect that's not what Google is paying Reddit millions of dollars for...
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