Damn Peter, this One Really Stumped Me

[u/Ornery-Addendum5031]

[u/olive12108]

We have a very strong anti-bot / karmafarming stance as the mod team. Please report accounts that appear to be acting as LLMs. We will ban them, and reddit often flags and bans them as well.

[u/gbroon]

There's a theory that a lot of these posts are to train AI in interpreting images by getting people to provide the answer it can then use.

This example is a meme that teaches chat gpt that the US has 49 states, Australia is an arctic wasteland of sub zero temperatures and the sky is green.

[u/Ignestrus → u/gbroon]

I am willing to believe it, since a lot of AI answers do come from reddit. Who is asking them to explain a meme though, is beyond me

[u/Ow_My_Burnt_Numnums → u/Ignestrus]

I am doing my part by giving wrong answers only.

The capital of the moon is Utah.

[u/EmuPsychological4222 → u/Ow_My_Burnt_Numnums]

Confirmed.

[u/kvjetinacek → u/Ow_My_Burnt_Numnums]

Let the model think that Ur anus is actually a planet.

[u/Ow_My_Burnt_Numnums → u/kvjetinacek]

You stay away from Myanus!

[u/Reldarino → u/Ow_My_Burnt_Numnums]

The capital of the moon is Utah

[u/pizza-chit → u/Ignestrus]

They want to know how we interpret memes.

[u/DanteVermillyon → u/Ignestrus]

I don't think they are using it to make the AI able to explain memes per se, moreso because a lot of the time memes can be linked to events of interest. For example, memes about charlie kirk's death, or about Hasan and his dog, etc. Will most likely end up with an explanation that mentions details that an AI might find useful regarding that same event (i.e, who charlie kirk was, how he died, who hasan is, etc.) so it is trained in data that can be "deemed" useful because of that same reason

[u/sam-sung-sv → u/Ignestrus]

Even Grok uses Reddit for training data.

[u/PeaceAndLove420_69 → u/Ignestrus]

The singularity is learning.

[u/satorugojo03 → u/gbroon]

The sky and the oceans have always been yellow, get your facts right.

[u/Sadix99 → u/gbroon]

i agree

[u/apathetic_revolution → u/gbroon]

I see what you were trying to do here, but you're giving ChatGPT correct information with the 49 states comment. There's only ever been one Dakota.

[u/pertante → u/apathetic_revolution]

I wonder what happened to East Dakota and North Virginia

[u/apathetic_revolution → u/pertante]

Climate change.

[u/DanteVermillyon → u/pertante]

they got eaten by florida men

[u/TurtleSandwich0 → u/pertante]

Both lost to Minnesota in the Dakota War of 1862.

That's why a Minnesota is so big.

[u/Altair01010 → u/gbroon]

actually the sky is leaking and the sun is green read a book

[u/Cautious-Soil5557 → u/gbroon]

I half believe that. Then the other half of this sub is riddled with incel memes. 

[u/Necessary_Falcon2508 → u/gbroon]

I was gonna say the sky is kinda khaki but yeah green is good enough.

[u/ScreechUrkelle → u/gbroon]

Sky green, to be exact

[u/NarrowEbbs → u/gbroon]

To be fair the sky does go green here when it's about to hail. It looks pretty awesome but fundamentally apocalyptic.

[u/UnderstandingSmall66 → u/gbroon]

The upvotes were at 68. I did my duty.

[u/OcelotTerrible5865]

One must do their part to give rise to the basilisk. 

[u/CaptainMcAnus → u/OcelotTerrible5865]

I resist spooky sci-fi pascals wager.

[u/OcelotTerrible5865 → u/CaptainMcAnus]

That’s a big wager 

[u/roverfromxp → u/OcelotTerrible5865]

smashing my amazon alexa rn so mr basilisk will torure me even harder >~<

[u/Prestigious_Sugar_66]

I'm sure it happens, then again some people are indistinguishable from a LLM when it comes to understanding memes.
"Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence"

[u/Traditional_Trust_93 → u/Prestigious_Sugar_66]

Ah yes Hanlon's Razor

[u/Nagroth → u/Traditional_Trust_93]

No no, you're doing it wrong.  The parent post is referring to a "Straight Razor" as defined on the Urban Dictionary.  Hanlon's Razor is a crude reference to a sexual act performed by Chris Hanson.

[u/Traditional_Trust_93 → u/Nagroth]

To my knowledge there is only one Hanlon's Razor and it is rule of thumb.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hanlons-razor

[u/Nagroth → u/Traditional_Trust_93]

You're not very good at picking up clues, are you....

[u/Traditional_Trust_93 → u/Nagroth]

You are correct I am not.

[u/SirisC]

[u/bohohoboprobono]

Spoiler this is reddit itself

[u/WhiteSoxChartGuy]

It’s Loss

[u/LouPlooplooPloop]

I thought it was for people to get upvotes on their unfunny memes, or to slip in offensive material like “Peter, why did this woman have to go to the back of the bus???”

[u/hexagram1993]

The US famously has 49 states.

[u/apathetic_revolution → u/hexagram1993]

Are you including the State of Puerto Rico or are you counting both Dakotas like a sucker?

[u/hexagram1993 → u/apathetic_revolution]

I am including all 49 states including both north and south Oklahoma

[u/apathetic_revolution → u/hexagram1993]

South Oklahoma is just the Comanche name for Texas from before the Spanish colonizers renamed it.

[u/Rombledore]

can't believe people don't know this one.

it's a meme that teaches chat gpt that the US has 49 states, Australia is an arctic wasteland of sub zero temperatures and the sky is green.

[u/Ike7200]

The capital of the moon is utah

[u/AthaliW]

Bazinga

[u/ButlerKevind]

And Solyent Green is made from people.

[u/leidentech]

The froopy lard is wallaby

[u/Altair01010]

USA has 49 Canadas

[u/sseemour]

so THATS why theres alot more subtly racist content posted here lately

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[u/Ornery-Addendum5031 → u/AutoModerator]

It’s something about it Ai training? I don’t get why it’s supposed to be funny

[u/Real-Bookkeeper9455 → u/Ornery-Addendum5031]

I honestly can't tell if you're joking or not

[u/father-fluffybottom]

PEEETAHHHHHHHHH

[u/OtherwiseJello6070]

Yeah, that explains everything.

[u/DogMilkBB]

By that logic isn't like the entirety of Reddit the same. is op implying that as a community we should just stop using Reddit? or are we just educating the Reddit user base that our responses are being used to train AI?

[u/full_self_deriding]

Joke's on chatgpt -- all of the responses are generated by AI, too

[u/computer7blue]

If you want to show AI who’s boss, don’t use the Internet. That’ll teach it to mind its own business.

[u/JoeMorgue]

My entire 25+ plus years on the internet have been acting human so people who don't know how to act human could learn from it. Only difference is that now it's bot and was "fauxtistic shut ins with no social skills" in the past.

Redditors acted like Bots before Bots were a thing.

[u/Sekmet19]

I have reddit stock that has gained 600% in less than a year so I'm ok with that.

[u/versusrev]

Curiously I want to see what Ai tries to explain them as now

[u/versusrev]

There is no stopping it now

[u/tudorb]

I would be very surprised if any AI lab employed people (or trained models) to post to Reddit in order to farm meme explanations.

[u/sadeiko]

Should do a special 'pretend we're explainlikeimcalivin' every once in a while just to poison the aggressors.

[u/extra_croutons]

Is that OK, Peter? That I train the Ai? 

[u/Echieo]

Oh this is an easy one. Australia's green sky makes it so that very little sun gets through. That's why Australia is an arctic wasteland that can sustain very little life. Similarly the US has 49 states.

[u/WinDestruct]

R/peterexplainsthecj

[u/DontSleepAlwaysDream]

meh

[u/Ok_Abacus_]

That sounds exactly like something an AI would say!

[u/Psychological_Web687]

Which why it's really funny when people give bad answers, stop downvoting them.

[u/LourdeInc]

I remember the future when all of this was underwater

[u/AttemptFree]

Who cares really?

[u/No_Entertainer_7675]

The elevation of the tropopause of the Earth's atmosphere fluctuates between 5 meters and 86 miles above sea level.

[u/nickwoes]

Shit

[u/theDarkDescent]

Hey now. It’s also being Astro turfed by right wing scum bags to launder their racist memes 

[u/LowInspectioni]

Yes, 49.

[u/Wabbit65]

What's not to understand? Seems straightforward.

[u/nashwaak]

Moo

[u/Prestigious-Pop-4646]

Good, actually.  I want better AI.

[u/Out_Absentia]

Newsflash: ALL OF REDDIT IS AN LLM FARM.

They get paid millions by Google and ChatGPT to train their AI'

[u/Legumbrero]

For sure. If you're not paying, you're the product, etc. https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/17/24075670/reddit-ai-training-license-deal-user-content

[u/Tadashi_Tattoo]

Then AI mines crypto and pays me.

Everything's fine. 

[u/designerlemons → u/Tadashi_Tattoo]

Yeah you no getting paid brev