This is my #noobquestion of the day.

#tumblr and #wordpress are apparently going to sell data for #aiscraping but what prevents the #scrapers from freely accessing the #fediverse and feasting on it at no cost?

And, if the answer is "nothing", how or where can one post their shit online without having to think about being scraped?

Is there any way to prevent it at all, like those poisoning tools for images?

Scraping truly oughta be opt-in, FFS.
#mastodonadmin #fuckaitheft #consent

Sigh... a JP artist I know, who had been careful to not upload any of their art to sites that allow AI bot scraping, just discovered that people have uploaded all of their art to a booru site and, helpfully, tagged it all in great detail. Which means that it has now all been ingested into AI training datasets. The cherry on top is this site will only take down art if they get a DMCA request in English from the original artist (or a legal representative), and guess what language they don't speak.

I need folks to realize that, while I know you like your booru archives, if you upload/tag art there, you are effectively hand-feeding it to AI image generators.
#FuckAI #FuckAITheft #AIArtIsTheft