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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Anyone remember when that LLM scraped and learned from Twitter but subsequently had to be taken down because twitter folks. This should be interesting.

Hell, I really hope it’s scraping the comments too.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

do you mean Tay? that was a touch pre-current-LLM, but it was demonstrative nonetheless

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

That’s the one!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hell, I really hope it’s scraping the comments too.

With what an absolute fucking trash fire YouTube comments are at the moment and Google being suspiciously silent about it, I'm sure that won't cause any issues at all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake" - Google, circa 2024

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

"I bent my Wookiee" - Google, circa 2024

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

tbh my experience has been that YT comments are dramatically better than they used to be

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Really? Most I’m seeing lately is obvious bot spam with content that’s not only blatantly against the rules but outright disgusting.

CW: mentions of animal abuse, violence, and racial slursyoutube comments

And that’s not even the worst ones. I’ve seen some which mention and promote CSAM. Reporting these seemingly does nothing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

holy shit. we are having completely opposite experiences

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

fucking hell -_-

that’s worse than the shitty ones I occasionally get to see

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I’ve found it varies extremely. Community/channel/field seems to make a big difference in the usual kind you’ll see, but there appear to be platform problems ito blocking some stuff from being posted/caught, too

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Generative AI animations already draw completely cursed faces*, I can't wait to see what they do with youtuber face.

* Gee I wonder why Sora used a balloon head for their big demo. I'm sure that's a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tay was a tad different than simply scraping Twitter as it learned based off responses and there was a concerted effort to troll it and make it racist.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'd argue there is a decades old concerted effort to troll and make racist the entire world wide web, by very dedicated actors no less.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

These things are scraping absolutely fucking anything that might get them closer to Superintelligence^tm^, I fully believe the comments are getting scraped as well.