In case you didn’t know, you can’t train an AI on content generated by another AI because it causes distortion that reduces the quality of the output. It is also very difficult to filter out AI text from human text in a database. This phenomenon is known as AI collapse.
So if you were to start using AI to generate comments and posts on Reddit, their database would be less useful for training AI and therefore the company wouldn’t be able to sell it for that purpose.
“It’s fascinating yet concerning to see Reddit’s move to sell its content for training AI models. This feels like a plot twist in a ‘Black Mirror’ episode, making us wonder if we’re heading towards a ‘Brave New World’ or just caught in the ‘Net’ of progress. While the potential to enhance AI’s grasp of human banter is immense, it also opens a Pandora’s box of privacy and ethical issues. It’s a byte-sized dilemma in a world hungry for data, urging us for a transparent dialogue to ensure we don’t scroll past our own rights. Perhaps, in a twist of fate, it’s humanity’s destiny to carve a future where we coexist with, if not be guided by, the very machines we’ve created.”