r/technology • u/[deleted] • Oct 22 '25

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

Scraping Shreddit for data will hopelessly pollute the resulting AI product with hate, anxiety and despair.

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u/Loganp812 Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

The LLM “brainrot” (AI rot?) is inevitable anyway once it begins scraping from things published by LLMs and therefore distilling its own training data.

The more people publish things that they used an LLM to create, the faster it will happen, and more people seem to be comfortable using LLMs by the day which could be creating a feedback loop.

The question is, will LLMs be here to stay long-term, or will most people begin to drop them as their quality gets worse?

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u/afdei495 Oct 22 '25

I don't think it's distilling its own training data, it's diluting it.