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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 22:42:10 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Folks, there are multiple reports about Fediverse data being used by AI companies like OpenAI. This puts vulnerable people at risk apart from everyone else. They build profiles about you, which can be used to deny you certain services because governments or influential people are now in charge. Server admins must block all AI bots and data center ranges to protect users. I’m not sure making your account private is safe or not. Please be safe, these are dangers times for privacy and safety.

   • BoloMKXXVIII (bolomkxxviii@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 22:47:05 JST BoloMKXXVIII

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     @nixCraft It serves two purposes. One is free data which they can use however they want, two is the chilling effect it has on free speech. Dangerous times.

   • Rin3d (rin3d@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 22:55:52 JST Rin3d

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     @nixCraft if a person can see it so can an ai.
     There's no way they are going to be able to block scrapers.

   • Erik Jonker (erikjonker@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:03:31 JST Erik Jonker

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     @nixCraft ...server Admins can't stop all AI bots, it's a simple as that, information on the fediverse is public and can be re-used by both humans and machines, for me that's part of this platform. I want my posts to be public and available to everyone and everything, if not, then i don't post on Mastodon. Ofcourse admins can make massive datacollection harder or more expensive for other parties but that is the most they can do.

   • Radio Azureus (radioazureus@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:43:19 JST Radio Azureus

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     @nixCraft We need links which can guide us to study the subject further

   • Kaede (empresskaede@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 00:58:53 JST Kaede

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     @nixCraft it's amazing how open AI hasn't run out of funding they are burning through money faster then the US military somehow

   • Beggar Midas (beggarmidas@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 01:46:27 JST Beggar Midas

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     @nixCraft That's going to mean jack & diddly if the scrape request comes from a top-down compromised LEA and you damn well know it. Or should know it.

   • hexaheximal (hexaheximal@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 02:27:10 JST hexaheximal

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     @nixCraft can you provide a source for this? I've never heard of any specific examples of ai companies scraping the fediverse specifically, just the internet in general