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Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?

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Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months ago

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.

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Q: Are we on the public internet? A: Yes and you’re being scraped

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