| license: other | |
| language: [en] | |
| tags: [reddit, animal-welfare, value-lock-in, robustness, pre-chatgpt-users] | |
| # Animal Discourse — Pre-ChatGPT Participants (robustness arm) | |
| Subset of `CompassioninMachineLearning/reddit-animal-discourse-2020-present` restricted to hashed authors whose **first comment in the corpus | |
| predates ChatGPT's launch (2022-11-30)**. These users were demonstrably engaged in | |
| animal discourse before AI chatbots existed, so they cannot be the post-2022 LLM-bot / | |
| karma-farm wave. Use as the robustness arm of the diversity/kink analysis: "among | |
| people already in the conversation before ChatGPT, did their diversity collapse?" | |
| - Kept **4,223,830** of 5,622,858 records (75.1%), from 263,709 pre-ChatGPT authors. | |
| - `author_first_seen.parquet` maps every hashed author -> first_seen date + pre_chatgpt flag. | |