On: Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

[moepstar]

What i really wonder is why they trained it on Reddit data, not on their own datasets?

[kgin → moepstar]

I feel like there's something really interesting behind that choice that probably isn't that flattering to Facebook.

[hombre_fatal → kgin]

I would imagine Reddit, being a forum of threaded posts, has far, far, far more conversational interactions than Facebook where everything is basically one-shot, no threading. You want to train a convo bot on conversations.

I doubt there's much more to it.

[skeletonjelly → hombre_fatal]

Facebook could have used all the 1 on 1 chats but maybe they didn't to avoid making it obvious that they have access?