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Which Lemmy/Piefed instances have taken a stand against AI training on users’ posts? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 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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[–] 11 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

the instance's stance matters very little, for a lot of reasons:

  1. nobody hosting a lemmy instance has the resources or interest to do ai training,
  2. there isn't enough on lemmy alone to constitute a useful dataset,
  3. nothing on lemmy is encrypted, save user credentials; every post and message you've ever sent is completely public. there's no way to make it harder to scrape without modifying the software, and even if you went that far,
  4. in order for federation to work, everyone must be able to read everything. everything you post literally gets copied to other instances so they can see what you wrote.

the only way to be sure that nobody is using your instance to train ai is to run your own instance on a private network with federation turned off.

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