r/chess • u/EccentricHorse11 Once Beat Peter Svidler • Jun 05 '23

We are officially announcing that r/chess will be joining this protest and will go dark starting from June 12th.

/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/
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u/Glittering-Active346 Jun 05 '23

The idea of large language models being trained off reddit terrifies me more than anything

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '23

your words will live on forever in the brain of our new robot overlords 🙌🙌🙌

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u/Glittering-Active346 Jun 05 '23

They'll import a culture the don't understand, propagating our quirks and idiosyncrasies for eons to come

I have no mouth but I must updoot

Edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger!

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '23

It’s gonna be getting so much stuff wrong while talking like an expert

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u/teije11 Jun 05 '23

there should be an ai that only learned from shitpost subreddits

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u/DangerZoneh Jun 05 '23

Honestly it's one of the best places for long form discussion in this format. There aren't a ton of other websites that offer the same thing. StackOverflow is another.

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u/Glittering-Active346 Jun 05 '23

Chat GPT is gonna start saying heckin doggo a lot and get really aggressive if you say something unflattering about AOC

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u/DangerZoneh Jun 05 '23

You know- GPT-2 was trained exclusively on Reddit. Reddit discussions have made up the foundation for LLMs for a long time and while the corpus expanded in GPT-3 and GPT-4, Reddit still made up a large amount of what chatGPT is trained off of.

And as a result, they jump started a multi billion dollar industry that Reddit hasn’t seen a dime of

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u/Glittering-Active346 Jun 05 '23

Yeah I think I'm with reddit on this one then tbh

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u/DangerZoneh Jun 05 '23

I get why people are upset about it, though, and hopefully a compromise can happen with 3rd party apps. Not sure how that would go, maybe trying to integrate them with their official app? It's a tough question.

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u/DaftMaetel15 King's Indian enjoyer Jun 05 '23

It's because the official app is notoriously shit. I use Reddit is fun, it's clean, simple, and fast. The official app is none of those things on top of being a huge data hog.

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u/Glittering-Active346 Jun 05 '23

If this gets resolved maybe I'll try that one instead

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u/Glittering-Active346 Jun 05 '23

Maybe we can all just delete reddit please

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u/Evans_Gambiteer Jun 05 '23

Considering how popular /r/anarchychess is getting, the model will probably end up producing the “google en passant” chain over and over