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
Unpopular opinion but social media has always been fundamentally public.
Unless they're scraping private dm's on encrypted devices, this should come as no surprise to anyone.
The good news is that nobody has exclusive right to data on federated platforms, unlike other sites that will ransom their user's data for private use. Let's not forget that many of us migrated here because the other site wanted to lock down their api and user data so that they could auction it to google for profit.
Ahahahahaha, so it's going to be a self-hating Meta AI bot?
Imagine being a techbro talking to your meta ai chatbot and he says "unlimited genocide on the first world, start jihad on krakkker entity"
Poison thy well comrades. Become more unhinged /s
Take away that /s, it's praxis now!
lemmygrad
imagining Zuck launching his "everybody gets ten virtual friends" initiative and accidentally re-radicalizing your parents and grandparents in the other direction.
Oh that's certainly a decision they made
I understand why they did it, but scraping a website that freely offers nearly the entirety of its data via federation is a dick move
The bot trained on hexbear and lemmygrad vs the bot trained on .world: 
Hexbear is on there too.
Fuck yeah! My "Bigfoot is actually a big cellar spider and that's why it's always blurry in pictures" theory is gonna be broadcast to everyone's grandmother!
Lol rip to the AI that trains on my ramblings.
Noooo my contentarinos nooooo
So every AI’s gonna identify as an Arch user with striped socks now?
Forcibly feminizing the ai, one pair of thigh highs at a time
They are scraping the blahaj cdn...
I'll be upping my use of Maoist Standard English and 
in response this revelation.
Damn zuckbot's gonna end up being a commie-bot that posts absurdist memes about beans if it's harvesting hexbear posts for content
The AI wasting hours of processing power having an internal struggle session re: outdoor cats before simply replying with ":pigpoopballs" on a platform that doesn't have that emoji
Going straight to palantir
now I feel I should upload my asshole pic.
Peertube as well. 46 instances.
Oh and https://mastodon.sdf.org as well.
Just fYI: @SDF@mastodon.sdf.org wanted to let you know.
Honestly, I already figured my posts probably were being used to train a LLM without my consent.
I'm more concerned about the non-consensual scraping causing excess load on the servers. The taking of content without license to train their energy-wasting autocomplete that is being used to for little commercially but to try to cheapen labor and pocket the money is a problem too. But I hate having servers impacted by their bullshit.
Check out the robots.txt on any Lemmy instance....
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
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.
"No no guys you don't understand, robots.txt actually means just search engines, it totally doesn't imply all automated systems!!!"
I thought we all knew and were training it wrong on purpose..
...as a joke.
aussie.zone and beehaw.org are on the list as well
Just make sure to add banana truck to the critical dialogue, and most importantly clown penis.
Our cdn is there... Joy...
Definitely called this. Can we have private voting now? These people are scraping the fediverse and the current state of things is a privacy nightmare.
You cannot have private voting. The Fediverse is open, that information has to be shared for it to work unless you want to make it more open to vote manipulation.
Even the PieFed implementation wasn’t great, basically giving every user a second account that sends the vote instead.
Aw hell nah
Does this mean that some of the more unhinged users might actually be chat bots? Or are they just scraping our comments reddit style?
Scraping by the look of it.
Also if you have ever spun up a lemmy or piefed instance, you will quickly see these bots pop up. They don't respect robots.txt AT ALL. I estimate 95% of the traffic I get on ly tiny little server is all AI crawlers.
A good way to hurt them is to either use cloudflares service or create a page that has a link....to another page that gets generated.....to another page. And each time, it slows down. No human would ever click the link, but bots ALWAYS do. Its so funny to see how many are out there in the quagmire of links on my little python script.
I assume scraping at this point. There's likely a few hobby ones now, but if Lemmy becomes popular then there will be lots of bots for sure.
I hate the internet now
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