Members of the software developer community have reported deleting or altering their posts to prevent them from being used by OpenAI.

  • PeachMan@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Reddit is still pretty useful, but it will become less and less relevant as contributors leave, just like StackOverflow did. Side note: are contributors actually leaving Reddit? People keep saying that’s happening, but I don’t really see it…maybe it’s very slow? Might depend heavily on the subreddit too.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t have numbers, but I did. Took Redact 9 hours to overwrite & delete the 17,000 comments on my 17-year-old account. But watching them scroll by, most weren’t really worth keeping. I saw several 15+ year-old active accounts do the same before I left.

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        6 months ago

        Wait, how can it find all your past comments? I thought Reddit only have you a list of the most recent 1000 or something like that?

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          6 months ago

          Through the API - well, it was through the API before they changed it. No idea if that’s possible now.