I used some tools to corrupt about 10 years of comments and posts of mine.
While that’s the correct thing to do in my opinion, it would be a mistake to assume that Reddit didn’t store your original comments.
By corrupting their dataset, you may actually be helping them recognize maliciously edited comments.
it would be a mistake to assume that Reddit didn’t store your original comments.
They were fairly specific about not doing that (I’d imagine largely because of GDPR).
I deleted 10 years of “content” before I left and checked their policies. They apparently actually do properly delete from their servers.
I’ve got a bridge in the desert I’d like to sell you.
GDPR is no joke. Storing a handful of comments is not worth the penalty if they get caught.
Note that I speak from experience as part of a company that needs to comply with the regulations. We do it because the risk of violation is 10000000% not worth it no matter how annoying and arduous it is to comply.
Can’t post a genius idea like this one without posting the links of the tools
Its not my idea, but I could probably dig up the tool I used. Dollars to donuts, it doesn’t work any more.
This might have been the tool I used. I dont think so because I overwrote everything with one message, but google around you’ll find similar.
This would be better if it fed the parent comment into ChatGPT prefixed with “create a plausible but factually incorrect aggressive response to <comment>”
Feed the machine to the machine!
