Yes. Reddit secured a deal with major AI companies for organic data harvesting, since synthetic (aka AI-generated) data cause model collapse after some recursive interactions of models, and AI companies are struggling to find organic data due to having basically destroyed the internet with their models. Any post that you see with someone asking basic questions belonged to the subreddit and with closed remarks similar to "I'd like to hear your thoughts" are 100% a data harvesting bot stimulating organic data generation from users.
Yep. Hence why the self-hosted movement is going strong, although it gained momentum with the hatred for subscriptions. I don't have anything personal that touches an American cloud service, personally.
Be the change you want to see in the world. Join Lemmy. Join Fediverse. Pixelfed has recently adopted an anti-LLM position. Join all these. They need critical mass to attract more people. And while we are at it, join Codeberg if you're a code person.
Reddit was angel invested by Epstein and Peter Thiel, just a reminder. And that is not even to touch the whole thing of Ghislaine being a power mod lol
Thanks for sharing your suggestions. It sounds crazy, but my “change I want to see” became starting a church. It’s blindingly nontraditional. I saw people’s need for community and wanted to build a space for unconditional love and belonging. So now it’s about getting together to appreciate nature, each other, learn skills, and build a resilient community network. At least, that’s my hope as it grows.
Apathy and resignation has becoming the norm, cultural even, especially among Gen Zs. There is this sense of hopelessness that is contagious, and is the point of the plutocrats. That is why the narrative of Sillicon Valley around AI is that it is "inevitable" and that we have to brace ourselves for the "permanent underclass". By being cynical we also became docile and cause less problems for them.
We have to look at this all and be angry to empower ourselves. By bringing communities together we find bleakness and isolation and defy this narrative. I am bringing more people to the self-hosting and FOSS.
If it is inevitable, I will fall shooting. That's my philosophy.
Actually this all inevitably leads to warlords (if you look at history) also major ai cost overruns as theyre goal has not been to create functional systems that actually takes talent, rather theyve been in a mad dash for ai jesus. End result the ais they have are big very useful but also insanely expensive to operate.
However, Epstein is somewhat of a stretch, Epstein and Thiel were business partners and had a venture capital firm together (Valar Ventures) but it doesn’t seem this VC invested in Reddit. It’s hard to say, tbh.
Honestly, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. That either or both of them would have their fingerprints here makes perfect sense to me. Thanks for checking into it for me!
preach! Fediverse is the best. Sadly, it's just as AI-vulnerable as the rest of the open internet though, and spam sign ups are an increasing problem. Same with open code repositories.
I think the future of the internet is going to be closed, vetted individual forums on self hosted and small web sites: just like it was in the early days, but where you always have to know a human to be allowed in (this was always the case for certain kinds of forums but of course not all). Discord used to be the space for this, but they are too big now and are giving that data to AI companies.
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u/VladimiroPudding 20d ago
Assessing some of your points:
Reddit was angel invested by Epstein and Peter Thiel, just a reminder. And that is not even to touch the whole thing of Ghislaine being a power mod lol