i manually deleted most of my comments (i left like 5) and all my posts recently (it was slow going, but i had heard of people running into problems using scripts). 11 years, only 9k karma.
any thoughts on whether that’s likely to have accomplished anything?
Mostly if you had ever posted something that was useful to people, it hurts other people now trying to find that information on the internet somewhere. It is unlikely Reddit actually deleted the data, they just made it inaccessible. Storage for posts is cheap. There’s no reason for them to not keep literally everything ever, especially since they’ve known for well over a decade that the data itself is useful.
i just hate the idea that an ai could have any part of my “voice.” i realize there’s something foolish about that, but i deleted anyway with the latest news.
Honestly, without first-hand knowledge, it’s really up in the air. I strongly suspect that they just do soft deletes and store versioned data, rather than overwriting. This means that any deletion/data-poisoning can likely be undone.
At the very least, you’ve accomplished adding CPU cycles to the exploitation effort though. Might be more symbolic than anything but, it’s not nothing.
i manually deleted most of my comments (i left like 5) and all my posts recently (it was slow going, but i had heard of people running into problems using scripts). 11 years, only 9k karma.
any thoughts on whether that’s likely to have accomplished anything?
If their soft deletes (so instead of actually deleting, it’s just a flag on the comment that hides it) then no, it won’t make a difference at all.
i was afraid of that, thank you.
Mostly if you had ever posted something that was useful to people, it hurts other people now trying to find that information on the internet somewhere. It is unlikely Reddit actually deleted the data, they just made it inaccessible. Storage for posts is cheap. There’s no reason for them to not keep literally everything ever, especially since they’ve known for well over a decade that the data itself is useful.
naw, nothing widely useful!
i just hate the idea that an ai could have any part of my “voice.” i realize there’s something foolish about that, but i deleted anyway with the latest news.
Honestly, without first-hand knowledge, it’s really up in the air. I strongly suspect that they just do soft deletes and store versioned data, rather than overwriting. This means that any deletion/data-poisoning can likely be undone.
At the very least, you’ve accomplished adding CPU cycles to the exploitation effort though. Might be more symbolic than anything but, it’s not nothing.