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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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A bot scraping the fediverse would be indistinguishable from any other kind of federation, only the purpose differs.
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the instance's stance matters very little, for a lot of reasons:
- nobody hosting a lemmy instance has the resources or interest to do ai training,
- there isn't enough on lemmy alone to constitute a useful dataset,
- 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,
- 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.
Might as well take a stand against the weather.
I don't think it's a case of "allowing" ai crawlers to scrape data.
The AI data crawlers scrape everything, it's a matter of stopping them, not if they allow it explicitly. And these companies have found other ways around larger players that have tried to stop them.
you should just leave the internet, you'll be happier, AI isn't going anywhere anytime soon
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