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.

    • Dremor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      You are talking about me, aren’t you ?

      If so, no, I don’t work for Mistral at all, but I do work for a company selling M$ products to businesses. You know, to pay rend, food, things like that.
      But M$ requires us to be certified to get prospects from them, and as such we are encouraged to do at least all basic certification relative to our field, which includes AI, Azure, C#, and the likes.

      That why I knew that the use of Shavian alphabet is mostly useless, as even a basic free AI is able to mostly decipher it. If a free one can, I’ll let to your imagination what a more advanced one can do.

      Now why did I use Mistral ? Simply because it happened to be installed on my phone for test purpose. I rarely use it, but I have to admit it is useful for specific scenarios. But once I can install an hardware accelereted local AI on my phone, Mistral can eat shit.

      • 反いじめ戦隊@ani.socialEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        𐑿’r 1 𐑝 many 𐑪 ð 🧵. Violat𐑙 copyrights, consent, 𐑯 privacy is θ l𐑰st 𐑝 𐑿r concerns when work𐑙 𐑓 a fash corpora𐑡.

        When’s your death camp appointment?

        • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldMEnglish
          32·
          13 hours ago

          The irony is that AI understood your comment way better than I did.

          Also let’s stop with talk of death camp appointments.

        • Dremor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I did try to work for opensource company, but strangely none of them accepted .NET as an acceptable experience. So I had to either find an entry-level Java position, and cut my paycheck by half, or continue to work where I do while changing things from the inside.

          I already managed to introduce some open-source tools here and there (we now uses DBeaver instead of SSMS, Insomnia instead of Postman, among others), and intend to continue for as long as I can.

          As for the appointment, in about 70 years, according to the current life expectation.