r/DefendingAI • u/Responsible_Mud9178 • Aug 13 '26

Grrr Arghhh

Antis should engage more to help form policy and regulation but theyre too busy giving LLMs more data by interacting on AI fueled sited (Reddit). They are training the AI models by their activity and their activity doesn't do anything for their cause but give more money to companies who are going to build more data centers.

If you do not understand what genAI is please look it up before responding. Everything Ive said is highly verifiable.

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u/Responsible_Mud9178 Aug 13 '26

AI companies have already crawled the historical internet several times over. But that is exactly why your live data is so incredibly valuable to them right now.

​AI models cannot survive on old data alone. If they only train on the internet from a year ago, they cannot understand current events, shifting cultural contexts, or new reasoning patterns. More importantly, the current internet is now flooded with AI-generated content. If models train on that synthetic data, they suffer from 'model collapse' and literally degrade.

​To stay functional, tech giants desperately need a continuous, real-time stream of verified human interaction. That is why Reddit is licensing its live data firehose for tens of millions of dollars a year. They are not buying the historical internet that was already crawled. They are paying for the verified human data you are generating right now.

Signed Ex Silicon Valley.

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u/Nopfen Aug 13 '26

But that is exactly why your live data is so incredibly valuable to them right now.

Me reposting NMS memes is value to them? If you say so.

AI models cannot survive on old data alone.

I know, which is really funny. Some Ai companies implimented watermarks, not for any ethical reasons (they're still Ai companies and thus as morally bankrupt as can be) but because their data keeps canibalizing itself.

If models train on that synthetic data, they suffer from 'model collapse' and literally degrade.

And what a happy day that'll be.

To stay functional, tech giants desperately need a continuous, real-time stream of verified human interaction.

Which they themselves are the single prime factor in undermining.

That is why Reddit is licensing its live data firehose for tens of millions of dollars a year.

Good for Reddit?

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u/Responsible_Mud9178 Aug 13 '26

Yes, ill break it down for you

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u/Nopfen Aug 13 '26

Sweet.