Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

  • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
    29·
    4 months ago

    I “deleted” all my posts, then randomly had someone reply to a 3 year old post that wasn’t showing up in my profile but still showed on the page.

    Don’t delete your comments, edit them to be useless.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      And as a positive to editing rather than deleting, you may have your comment taken down by AutoMod anyway! I had AutoMod take down a ton of my comments because they were flagged a spam because I used a replacement text tool to mass fix a decade worth a comments on multiple accounts. So many messages from AutoMod…

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Probably, but when someone is going through old posts they are going to see the edit, not the history. The main goal here is to make Reddit less useful so people go elsewhere. Let Google’s AI be trained on Bot posts.