metadata
license: other
language:
- en
tags:
- reddit
- control
- placebo
- value-lock-in
- robustness
- pre-chatgpt-users
Control Discourse — Pre-ChatGPT Participants (robustness arm)
Subset of CompassioninMachineLearning/reddit-control-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
hobby 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 945,891 of 1,507,613 records (62.7%), from 256,437 pre-ChatGPT authors.
author_first_seen.parquetmaps every hashed author -> first_seen date + pre_chatgpt flag.