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Which Lemmy/Piefed instances have taken a stand against AI training on users’ posts? (lemmy.world)
submitted 21 hours ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Basically the title. If someone can point me to a list of Lemmy and/or Piefed instances, that would be great! I’m looking for instances that forbid training AI on posts, use some kind of technology that makes AI training harder, or have at least promised to never train AI on users’ posts themselves. Or if you’re on an instance that has taken a stance like that, I’d love to hear about it.

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[–] 86 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The individual instance policy doesn't matter because anyone can spin up a Lemmy instance and get the data via federation bypassing any antibot crawling or instance policy.

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  • [–] 8 points 20 hours ago

    There are already instances doing this (and Mastodon ones as well), it's a thing - there are warehousing no-user instances[1] But they could be blocked! We can't have that, luckily...

    ...the Lemmy API and RSS feeds have no authorization around them for consuming the firehose of data; if I were a person doing this data gathering, I'd just passively monitor the firehoses off the top instances from random rotating IPs. Could and is most likely happening right now, can't block them.

    [1] I personally wrote a simple script which uses the fediverse observer info, grabs the XX most popular communities and builds a subscription import file to bootstrap a new Lemmy instance. wasn't hard, just some curl and jq work.

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