cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/8775123
Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early stages of monetizing our user base,” and proceeds to say that it will continue to sell users’ content to companies that want to train LLMs and that it will also begin “increased use of artificial intelligence in our advertising solutions.”
The long-awaited S-1 filing reveals much of what Reddit users knew and feared: That many of the changes the company has made over the last year in the leadup to an IPO are focused on exerting control over the site, sanitizing parts of the platform, and monetizing user data.
Posting here because of the privacy implications of all this, but I wonder if at some point there should be an “Enshittification” community :-)
Have you confirmed that it was all successfully deleted?
Check back in a day or two from a different internet connection. There’s been lots of stories of people deleting their content, and it’s showing back up later.
To late now. Without an account there’s no way to avert comment necromancy by reddit. It’s why I kept my login; so I could clean up stragglers.
Oh good point. What tool did you use to scrub your comments?
Yep that’s the right way to do it. Mass edit all your comments instead of deleting them and then keep your account but just stop using it.
Narrator: Newsflash, it’s never truly “deleted”.
Interesting that you say that. I used one deletion tool to delete everything then a couple days later I ran another tool and found there was still a lot left.