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Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI? (wedistribute.org)

submitted 1 week ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week 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.