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[pokemonsuper9]

I don't know if it's necessarily AI, could just be good old-fashioned scrapers.

But if you were wanting to train an AI, 6.5 million human written messages here (ignoring the 1 million in the Quizzes and Games section), it'd be an excellent dataset, especially where there's technical knowledge.

The Enron Corpus is only 1.7 million messages and near enough every model has been trained on it due to the value of normal human discussion.



I'd be tempted to say if this keeps happening to just restrict it to only members, but obviously a lot of the visitors are guests so it wouldn't be fair to the actual humans. The way I found these forums in the first place was it showing up in Google search results.

 

[najaB]

But if you were wanting to train an AI, 6.5 million human written messages here (ignoring the 1 million in the Quizzes and Games section), it'd be an excellent dataset, especially where there's technical knowledge.

Oh, I don't doubt that it might be for AI, but it may well not be AI.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

But if you were wanting to train an AI, 6.5 million human written messages here (ignoring the 1 million in the Quizzes and Games section), it'd be an excellent dataset, especially where there's technical knowledge.

In the early days of this website, postings in the Quizzes and Games forum were eligible for inclusion in members' official posting count, but the website decided not to allow them for inclusion in 2012. I have made well over 100,000 postings in that forum since joining the website in 2011.

 

[brad465]

9,000 "guests" on at the moment and slow loading to go with it.

 

[JD2168]

Forum only managed to load for signing in for myself now after being extremely slow & not loading pages up

 

[Purple Train]

I had issues logging in but they were fixed very quickly - thanks admins!

 

[WWH44L]

Does anyone else have to log in every time they access this site? For some reason my log in details are not saving even when asked how long to keep me logged in for

 

[Horizon22]

Does anyone else have to log in every time they access this site? For some reason my log in details are not saving even when asked how long to keep me logged in for

Sounds like something to do with your cookies settings.

 

[Trackman]

Does anyone else have to log in every time they access this site? For some reason my log in details are not saving even when asked how long to keep me logged in for

Are you on MS Edge by any chance?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Never knew that the quiz threads on the Quizzes and Games forum were so popular with "guests" from what I have seen in the information shown that relates to the number of people watching each thread, if that matter is to be believed.

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Are you on MS Edge by any chance?

I am and have not had any problems.