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Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?

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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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They’re scraping the entirety of the web, why would the fedi be an exception?

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