Bluesky's open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training
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the protocol might be open but joining your own server is not open so not really like the fediverse.
but you kind of said yourself that in practice its not really.
yes but it makes federation pointless.
its centrally controlled that makes it pointless. if BitTorrent was centrally controlled that would also make it pointless. it does not matter what the protocol can do if a central point can control who can use it.
Same with Mastodon.
This isn't exactly surprising, is it? Odds are that Lemmy is also being scrapped the shit out of.
And it would be fine if it was a bunch of nobodies training their homebrew small language models, for the sake of whatever.
Except that it isn't - it's a bunch of big arse companies, with a "NEED MOAR DATAS!" approach, and more than enough money to bake the already too warm planet, since they struggle with the fact that those "things" called "humans" care about consent. "This thing didn't opt out, so training on its data is fair game!". Just to shove the tech back into the thing's throat, in the hopes that it makes the tech eventually profitable.
...I guess that my point is that this should be handled legally, not through closing down the protocol. The issue is not people scraping it, but who does it, and why.
Anyone who doesn't believe that literally everything and anything they post on the internet is being scraped for LLM's is an idiot.