Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI? - We Distribute
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Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit?

Building on some initial reports coming from the FediPact account and Dropsite news, we dive into potential measures admins can take for their instances.

  • Ziggurat@jlai.lu
    11·
    2 days ago

    Does the GPL apply to content published on the fediverse? If yes we’re getting a great open source model for free.

    Also obligatory fuck META

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      No, the GPL is strictly a software license. Even then, most Fediverse platforms are AGPL at best, which only really deals with modifications to the source code of AGPL projects. Content licensing itself is more nebulous and more complicated.