• Dettweiler@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      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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      8 months ago

      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.