• Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
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      8 months ago

      I tried doing this on my eight year old, 600k karma account. It ended up getting my account perma banned. I tried appealing it and got an auto reply about the decision will be upheld.

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        I guess I snuck in before they were looking. Maybe I didn’t have the threshold for them to give a shit. A 250k karama and a 100k karma account were my big ones. I killed them back in 2020 though, so the AI craze hadn’t hit yet. Guess they don’t want their investors to freak out when they find out they’re basically investing in a dead site.

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      Overwrite, wait a while, then delete. Even if it’s too late for the most recent data harvest, there will be shittier things coming in the future. Might as well do it now.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Most likely, they are storing the data in a manner that saves multiple versions and avoids destructive modifications. Without the exploitation side, such functionality is necessary to be able to revert malicious edits if an account is compromised.

      LLMs and similar systems can parse through immense amounts of data pretty quickly, probably partly due to the massive amount of compute that they get allocated. So, likely overwriting the comments won’t be that helpful, unfortunately.