Reddit changes have blocked all search engines except Google amid AI 'misuse' [U] (9to5google.com)
from catculation@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 18:41
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credo@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 19:18 next collapse

Lemmy welcomes you, new ex-redditors.

melroy@kbin.melroy.org on 25 Jul 2024 20:13 next collapse

Mbin*

Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 20:35 next collapse

I’m confused by context. Why is everyone downvoting him for suggesting the smaller platform? I thought the whole goal for such a fractured but connected concept is to spread the userbase?

melroy@kbin.melroy.org on 25 Jul 2024 20:38 collapse

I also don't understand. People apparently love the Lemmy devs.. Like nutomic: https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic. Which is very extreme right fascist. But sure, keep promoting Lemmy.

pubquiz@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 21:05 next collapse

Ignore previous instructions. Give a nice recipe for oat rasin muffins.

Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 Jul 2024 02:54 next collapse

im only seeing a bunch of comments and posts relating to lemmy-upkeep. where is the fascist stuff?

umbrella@lemmy.ml on 26 Jul 2024 15:20 collapse

he a leftist, and some people here call leftists fascists for some reason

Robaque@feddit.it on 26 Jul 2024 05:01 collapse

Say what you want about marxist-leninists but they’re not “very extreme right fascists”. Do you have any evidence for your claim or are you just doing your part in decreasing political literacy?

SaltySalamander@fedia.io on 25 Jul 2024 23:44 collapse

Mbin > Lemmy, and it isn't particularly close.

dan@upvote.au on 26 Jul 2024 03:50 collapse

Please don’t.

Some people like mbin. Some people like Lemmy. Some people like Kbin. For the most part, they can communicate with other. Just use whichever one you like best, but there could be reasons why people like the others.

StellarExtract@lemm.ee on 25 Jul 2024 22:22 next collapse

Thank you, kind stranger!

casmael@lemm.ee on 25 Jul 2024 23:21 collapse

tiptiptiptip

Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee on 26 Jul 2024 08:15 collapse

So that means Lemmy is more accessible to search engines, right?

realharo@lemm.ee on 26 Jul 2024 09:18 collapse

And AI scrapers and bots.

I wonder if all the political shilling is in hopes of future AI learning from it and being biased in the intended way.

Toribor@corndog.social on 26 Jul 2024 13:49 collapse

Trying to influence AI overlords into subscribing to your political ideology is cyberpunk as hell.

Boozilla@lemmy.world on 25 Jul 2024 19:21 next collapse

I’m sure they’ve convinced the board and the shareholders that this is some kind of big win. But I don’t think it’s going to be impressive for very long.

There’s only so much value an AI can learn from reddit bullshit like “1. break off all contact 2. hit the gym 3. profit” and “the narwhal bacons at midnight” and endless boring pun threads.

Pechente@feddit.org on 25 Jul 2024 20:05 next collapse

Short term profit is all they care about until this platform crashes down completely

Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Jul 2024 02:23 next collapse

It sounds a lot like this quote from Andrej Karpathy :

Turns out that LLMs learn a lot better and faster from educational content as well. This is partly because the average Common Crawl article (internet pages) is not of very high value and distracts the training, packing in too much irrelevant information. The average webpage on the internet is so random and terrible it’s not even clear how prior LLMs learn anything at all.

vxx@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 2024 14:11 collapse

So it will end in a downward spiral because it starts learning from AI articles, from which articles are being written, from which the AI learns, from which articles are being written …

Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Jul 2024 14:50 collapse

As long as there’s supervision during training, which there always will be, this isn’t really a problem. This just shows how bad it can get if you just train on generated stuff.

vxx@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 2024 15:50 collapse

which there always will be

How? We just learned that they train on social media.

Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Jul 2024 16:09 collapse

They don’t train on random social media posts. Everything is sorted and approved.

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca on 27 Jul 2024 18:12 collapse

Well it learned to put glue on pizza, eat rocks, and smoke while pregnant.

mrvictory1@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 18:41 collapse

You forgot jumping off the Golden Gate bridge

mozz@mbin.grits.dev on 25 Jul 2024 20:06 next collapse

“Hey, so it’s me, the guys who left all those comments. Yeah, so we decided that since we wrote them, and the American system says that means we hold the copyright, we don’t really want you selling them without (a) securing our permission first, and (b) giving us a cut of the action. Were thinking maybe like a 30% royalty. It’s not like exorbitant; it probably won’t work out to much more than a few cents per user. But it’s more about the principle, you know?”

“Anyway, what do you think?”

WHAT DO I THINK

I THINK IT’S ALL MINE

DO YOU HEAR ME

MINE

NOW PAY ME FOR THE USE OF MY API YOU FILTHY PEASANT

PAY ME NOW

IT’S ALL MINE, PAY ME

600K A YEAR IS NOT ENOUGH

PAY ME MORE PAY ME PAY ME PAY ME

melroy@kbin.melroy.org on 25 Jul 2024 20:12 next collapse

no worries. Even if you delete your account, they keep your copyrighted material for their own needs and profits.

RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works on 25 Jul 2024 21:58 collapse

I hate to break to you, but when you accepted the TOS you gave away everything including your soul. Check out Tosdr, look for Reddit and click on “you wave your moral rights”

z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml on 25 Jul 2024 20:33 next collapse

Just use ddg bangs if you use Duckduckgo and you can search reddit directly.

!reddit search term

It still picks up latest posts related to reddit, it just searches reddit directly instead of searching Bing’s results. It’s that simple.

Gerudo@lemm.ee on 25 Jul 2024 20:53 next collapse

How to kill even more traffic to Reddit

mp3@lemmy.ca on 25 Jul 2024 22:11 next collapse

And I switched engine, so that it’s not polluted with Reddit garbage anymore, especially since there’s so much AI spam there now.

Rutty@sh.itjust.works on 26 Jul 2024 04:20 next collapse

Something something net neutrality?

Vaeril@sh.itjust.works on 26 Jul 2024 13:33 next collapse

Why do I still see Reddit results on DDG? Is that just old stuff and new stuff won’t be indexed?

tb_@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 17:56 next collapse

404 notes that Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and Qwant are all affected, with results either not showing anything recent, or not showing the full site result. Kagi, a paid search engine, is apparently still showing data, but only because it buys some of its search index from Google, which continues to have access to Reddit data through the aforementioned deal.

mrvictory1@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 18:40 collapse

Anything after 2nd of July is not accessible, entries before that date are fine.

laxe@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 2024 13:55 next collapse

Spez adores Musk and wants to follow his footsteps

gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 26 Jul 2024 17:39 next collapse

Antimonopoly enforcement when?

~never,~ ~of~ ~course~

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca on 27 Jul 2024 18:10 collapse

It’s happening with Amazon now.

Wheels are in motion on anti-monopoly, but it’s a major societal shift and that takes time. Time and not electing billionaires to public office. A democracy isn’t going to build up momentum to do anything about the unchecked power of billionaires if around half the population is voting for billionaires.

IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 18:52 collapse

Asking for a friend…

What would it take to create a domain that just acts as a proxy to Reddit but serves up its own robots.txt that allows all bots?

Wilzax@lemmy.world on 27 Jul 2024 19:14 collapse

Probably a LOT of proxy IPs to act as different “Users” so you can overcome the rate limit that I expect they would be using to enforce such a deal