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If they were just talking about Reddit, I’d assume something dodgy was going on connected with the IPO. But Quora is supposedly back from the dead too… Am I missing something glaringly obvious here?

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[–] forgotmylastusername@lemmy.ml 101 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I think I've comment this before but over the pandemic years I did a little experiment. Every day I bookmarked the obvious content reposting bot accounts on the first few pages of r/all. After a while I checked back on the accounts. The majority of them become cryptocurrency spam bots. A very small percentage spam random things. There was an extremely high success rate of picking out the bot accounts. Pretty much all them were except for maybe a handful.

spez is basically exit scamming with reddit. Whoever is buying the dataset is getting robbed blind. That's if reddit inc isn't being upfront behind closed doors. Maybe they are. After all reddit does have well over a decade of mostly organic activity. The recent data has to be absolute trash though.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It isn't like you can't otherwise get the older data if you really want though, pretty sure it's on torrents. The newer stuff is all they have to sell.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Google wants the data to be exclusively licensed, so they can pursue any competing LLMs and sue them to death - I mean, develop a 'moat'

It's not really about the actual data access

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

I don't buy that, given

  1. All the effort Reddit has put into locking down data access

  2. Google itself was behind the lawsuit establishing fair use for scraped datasets, and it's looking likely that will be upheld

Would be happy to hear it if there's reasons I'm not aware of that this is the intention though