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Oh, I say, this is even more elegant than my replacing the comments with randomized text.

Brilliant thought, one must never use copyrighted text, should one!

@theluddite

This is great! I was considering working on something similar in the differential security realm.

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Also avoid replacing your comments with AI generated data as this could poison the model and cause it to collapse. The article below talks about AI image models, but the problem can occur on text models too, so be extra careful.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23/1082189/data-poisoning-artists-fight-generative-ai/

@theluddite I did that immediately before deleting my account during the API debacle.

The next day (after my account was deleted,) Reddit restored all the text to what it was pre-edit. All attributed to [deleted] of course.

They haven’t responded to any requests to actually delete the data, as some of it contains what could be personally-identifiable.

@theluddite ROFLMAO!

As if learning was a copyright infringement...

Cuz if so we'd all be #DebtPeon|s to the #Copyrightmafia!

felixreda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/

@theluddite Funny you should mention! This AM I went to my Reddit overview & paged back thru comments going back however many years…good laughs. Figured wise to download my post & comment history for safe keeping. Went about my biz, pointing & clicking & typing, as one does.

Looked again an hour later & it's inexplicable, but all my comments done been replaced; now they're all the same mashup of text apparently from NYT, LATimes, WashPost, and the Bee Movie script. Weird. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@theluddite The #ccc hackers code of conduct says not to meddle in other peoples data. that line becomes blurry really quick if other people mistakenly think, my data is their data.

Question here is: do you sing away the intellectual property rights of what you create, if you post on Reddit? Can an ULA even do that in a legally binding way?

@theluddite Somewhat related: I’d love to get some initial feedback from #WordPress users on a plugin I’m awaiting official review. It poisons AI bots with garbled content instead of outright blocking them: https://kevinfreitas.net/tools-experiments/

If anyone installs it let me know — I’d love to see how it does on your pages/posts. Don’t worry, it doesn’t alter your content in the database but garbles it on-visit by #LLM bots. Cheers!

@theluddite you know what'd be REALLY cool??

a plugin that replaces each comment with a random paragraph from wikipedia that's had 10% of the nouns swapped out, and 10% of any numeric figures adjusted by +/- 80%.

@theluddite Copyright is a corporate patriarchal late stage capitalism oppression that undermines natural human need for knowledge and creativity.

Until it's my shitpost in r/buttholes

@theluddite This is absolutely fantastic! Thank you!

Only suggestion I'd make is it replaces all comments with the same thing. If you paste in some open domain content, say a novel by EM Forster, that it would randomly pick a section of the pasted stuff that is roughly the same # of words as what its replacing.

This would make the replacement more random and less obvious, hopefully throw a wrench in Reddit's auto detect and rollback.

u has a github I could mebbe sketch up a patch?

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The one drawback is that Subreddit moderators do not appreciate the move.

At all.

@theluddite there are some great Lorem ipsum generators online.

Here’s a fun bunch. Plus the classic.
https://mailchimp.com/resources/lorem-ipsum-generator/