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You know what the world doesn't need?
an AI model trained on the old Reddit Hive Mind.
Some AI models already argue when people point out inaccuracies, just like on Reddit.
Makes me wonder how that technology is going to track. Reddit isn't bad for finding niche answers to niche questions, but if you import the data wholesale then you'll have a hard time separating the signal from the noise, even if you sort by using vote counts as relevance.
Reddit is valuable because people can do a search for a niche topic and find the answer on that forum. And the answer was written by a human. It's not valuable because it can amalgamate an approximation of those answers that might be 90% true and 10% dead wrong.
As someone with expertise in some niche fields:
They're almost always wrong about everything, and when someone tries to correct them, with sources, they get downvoted.
Guess what data they're trained on...
This is a human thing and not so much a reddit thing. People been arguing on the internet since the inception of message boards.
I disagree. A reddit bot would be really funny as it would constantly talk about incest and spez
That and the feeling of pride and accomplishment.
A lot of AI models are probably already trained on Reddit data. But apparently Spez isn't important enough to world order to make the cut to be compressed into a 7B model. I asked my Mistral-7B-Instruct (4-bit quantised) local LLM: