I’ve worked on the part of the pipeline that annotates the type of videos you would record. Things like cleaning the data or marking down what the machines are doing.

Contrary to what others have said, it would be difficult to poison the dataset. Training data works in aggregates. Anything you do out of the ordinary will be flagged by the human annotators or the automated systems looking for deviations from the norm.

Many people are already doing what you’ve been offered. Their data is already being processed and fed into LLMs. They want as much data as they can get. That’s why they’re paying so much to every professional in the world right now.

I honestly don’t know how one might sabotage the system but it’s not as easy as you all think. The militantly anti-AI crowd likes to think of LLMs as more incapable than it actually is. The systems will spot obvious things like randomly tabbing and spinning the cursor. AI is better than that now. Human annotators will flag those easily as junk data too.

I’ve faced as similar dilemma as you. I need money so I did that job even though I hated it. I’ve seen obvious acts of attempted sabotage in the data. We get penalized for not spotting these things, even as bottom rung data cleaning peons.

I wouldn’t waste my time trying basic trickery. This is like day 1 stuff they tell us to look out for. Also you will immediately be noticed and fired for giving them junk data.

Logically the next thought might be to insert some high level errors that only the top experts could spot. I honestly don’t know if this even works, but I doubt it. They have experts in the pipeline too. So you might end up giving them data about errors that only experts could spot. That would only make their dataset even better.

It says something when I saw that headline and my thought was equally some natural disaster or attack struck. Either that or this administration simply fucked up again.

Steering the discourse by playing both sides of the narrative. It’s done for just about everything these days. We’re doomed.

There was a quiet exodus during the_donald era. That whole time from 2016 - 2020 was very strange. Nobody talks about it. Except for the minority of us from the before times.

For reddit corporate there was a serendipitous confluence of events.

• Right wing US politics trolls caused a quiet exodus.
• A pandemic happened causing everyone to be stuck at home doomscrolling.
• Reddit was doing a relaunch, with a new site design and official app.
• They were preparing to IPO.

Basically reddit corporate got a free reset. One that Digg could have only dreamed of. Much of the old unprofitable userbase left. Ragebaiting trolls overran the platform. Fresh userbases flooded into the site. Social media psychological manipulation/addiction mechanisms had a field day on those unsuspecting doomscrollers.

You old timers ever notice how reddit’s demise is a perpetually sliding window? You can tell when someone started using reddit based on when they think it was good and when it went bad.

Most users today talk about relaunch/redesign era as the good times. They think only relatively recently has it turned bad. None them have any clue about the pre-2020 era because they had no clue about reddit before.

All that being said. I don’t think it’s only commercialization that killed it. The type of users killed it too. That isn’t mutually exclusive from userbase size.

Commercialization relies on engagement tricks like ragebait. That requires users who will engage with that too. The old reddit userbase was more skeptical and cognizant of commercialization tactics. The userbase today doesn’t hate it. Some even seem to relish in it.

They like the tabloid posts. They like the emotional clickbait. They like to gossip. They like the drama.

In hindsight the leather jacket swagger should have been a hint that this guy couldn’t keep his dick in his pants.

A few years ago discovered excluding some usernames from a product search can turn reddit results from dozens of hits to none. I noticed those accounts were in all likelihood using keyword notifcations so they could reply to any post mentioning certain model numbers.

In the era of billions of different models of products, there really isn’t many people writing about everything. What you get outside of the popular brands and models is nothing at all.

It’s more of a red flag than anything if I go looking for reviews and find too much posting about a random product model that isn’t a household brand name or obviously popular model. If it’s a popular item then I wouldn’t have needed to be digging through the internet for reddit comments anyway.

A trillion dollar affair is going to be an all timer.

BonziBuddy was a thing just before the dotcom bubble burst. Just saying.

They even look the similar.

It’s silly how “the internet remembers” saying gets repeated. That was true pre-2010 roughly. These days it’s evidently not that difficult for someone to be disappeared or disappear themselves from the internet.

Unless you’re high profile enough or you’ve really angered a crowd. Nobody is going to be archiving you. Certainly nobody is dedicated enough to ensure that your content is perpetually hosted somewhere.

There are some Youtubers from the 2010 era who I used to watch. It’s as if they never existed. They made their ad money and vanished.

They were going to lose anyway. Everyone seems to memoryhole that the Biden administration was on the verge of forcing Google to sell of chrome. They were probably going to enforce more antitrust on big tech.

But of course people memoryholed it. They control what you see and think.

It’s no surprise they comply with Trump’s arbitrary whims. The tech industry didn’t gamble. Trump was their only choice.

The odds are non-zero that someone has argued with their own toaster.

It’s the end of the personal computer era. Who’d have thought it was going to be so soon. Or at all.

This is entirely Putin’s plan to dismantle America and attack Ukraine so Europe rearms.

The restrictions are so they can gradually institute tiered access fees. This is how the industry becomes profitable.

I made the discussion threads for a few shows in their early seasons from around 2010. There wasn’t automation to do it back then.

I was glued to the TV from the moment I saw TNG for the first time.

US culture revolves around the thrill of gossip. It’s not about the thing itself. It’s about high stakes drama.

It’s like the Mythbusters gif where the truck never hits the bollard.

There’s always that guy, usually American, who regales on how they lived in China or some where in Asia for some years. Blog posting as if it makes them an authority on anything really. I can’t help but picture them thinking themselves as an 18th century frontier man who sailed across the oceans and walked across vast distances to journey to the Orient. And now he’s returned to tell everyone the tales of the far away mysterious lands.

As if nobody else has ever got on a plane and traveled some where else in the world before. As if the internet isn’t full of people from around the world who know much more than they do. I’m sure this way of talking captivates audiences in their rural America town where farthest anyone else has traveled is one town over, and so they’ll readily believe the fantastical stories of a traveling caravan of Siamese twins, hirsute women, and other such attractions.

Or it might be more apt to say that it shriveled like a rapidly deflating balloon: over the past four months

Not as catching as “bubble burst”. LLMs have proven their use. It’s here to stay. There’s a lot of superfluous stuff, but people are coping if they think the bubble is going to burst and their jobs will all go back to how the were.

It’s more than SpaceX and Anthropic. The entire market is financial mutually assured destruction. Anyone who has any sort of invested savings pretty much relies on the index funds in some way. If we eat the rich, we don’t get to walk away happy with full bellies. We’re going down with them.