I’m looking for people to take part in a study about people using tools (like Redact or PowerDeleteSuite) to prevent the use of their Reddit data to train AI.
Participation involves completing a short intake form and joining a 1-hour online interview. The study is with the University of Toronto.
As a token of thanks, you’ll receive a $30 (CAD) gift card for Amazon.
If you’re interested, you can hear more details and sign up at: https://qualtricsxmfw76s26sl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5uxalY9uIDKrctU
I’m seeing some reports on this post from people who are suspicious about its legitimacy. It looks to be the same format as other Canadian university studies I’ve seen, and the fediverse is the right place to find people for such a study. To me it looks legitimate.
Maybe I can do a verification from the admin side? If you can send us an email from your institution account to
support@lemmy.ca, I can leave a comment confirming that you are indeed from UofT.You could also post this in !reddit@lemmy.world
Thank you for giving me the chance to verify. I will send over an email now to verify that it’s a legitimate study now.
If there’s anything else that I can do to demonstrate this, just let me know.
And thank you for letting me know about the other location to post. I will post there for sure.
No problem! I can confirm that we received a verification from a University of Toronto email address.
Thank you again!
do you honestly think reddit wont just steal your posts and feed it to their ais anyways? your only acomplishying making things harder for real humans
Uh. I hate the power deleters. It mainly makes conversation worse for the remaining humans on Reddit.
That seems to be exactly the point. They actively reminded Reddit that people come there because of the stuff they wrote, not anything Reddit did. Your comment validates their reasoning.
Sure, I’m not debating that. And there’s other ways to destroy or impede (with) something to generate attention towards it. Sorry for getting political here, but other example that comes to my mind is how people supposedly cut cable ties of the German train system to draw attention to the cause of climate politics. It is massively annoying for all commuters, and people who are already on board for a more enviromentally friendly way to get to work. Because now everyone is 2h late, except people with a car. And I always question the validity of it.
But ultimately it’s completely unclear who does it. Could very well be people trying to make climate activists look bad in some false-flag-operation. And in this instance (post deletion) I’m willing to believe it’s genuine.
But the gist of it is the same… Is it going to archieve the long-term goal? Because the short- and mid-term way of working is, you’re being destructive to tear down the remaining good things about something faster, so it eventually is going to have to get replaced… And I’m more on board with, focus on direct constructivism. For example I just left Reddit and went here. And I’m somewhat happy the crowd working towards something is more pronounced than the people immediately trying to destroy it as well. I mean theoretically we probably should - by that reasoning. I’ve seen the AI scrapers hammer my Fediverse instance, too.
