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.

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’m more upset that they’d be scraping the HTML rather than just federating and saving the server bandwidth.

    • ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yeah I understand the resource utilization concern but a lot of people are pissed about ingesting their comments. There were people who actually thought putting CC terms on their posts would actually do anything.