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Leaked list shows Facebook training their AI on multiple Lemmy instances (lemmy.ml)
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Dropsitenews published a list of websites Facebook uses to train its AI on. Multiple Lemmy instances are on the list as noticed by user BlueAEther

Hexbear is on there too. Also Facebook is very interested in people uploading their massive dongs to lemmynsfw.

Full article here.

Link to the full leaked list download: Meta leaked list pdf

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 day ago

Linked article in the body suggests that likely wouldn't have made a difference anyway

The scrapers ignored common web protocols that site owners use to block automated scraping, including “robots.txt” which is a text file placed on websites aimed at preventing the indexing of context

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah ive seen the argument in blog posts that since they are not search engines they dont need to respect robots.txt. Its really stupid.

[-] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 23 points 1 day ago

"No no guys you don't understand, robots.txt actually means just search engines, it totally doesn't imply all automated systems!!!"

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