Joaquín BaldwinMeta/Facebook/Threads/Instagram is now using your content for generative AI. There is a form to opt out, although I don't know if it'll make a difference, but here it is: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/1266025207620918
Andy@joabaldwin There is also a very good chance that, without our knowledge or permission, someone somewhere is scraping all our public Mastodon posts and feeding it to a LLM.
Takiro 🎨@andyb There's also a good chance that you get robbed when going to McDonald's but it makes a difference if it's McDonald's whos inviting the robbers and telling them your there and are free to get robbed and also pays the people doing the robbery or gets payed by them to allow them to rob you.
@Takiro I’m not sure I follow the analogy.
Probably an unpopular opinion, but I’m actually *more* comfortable with tech companies doing this sort of thing because there’s a chance we might be able to do something about it (either opt out or get compensated).
Whereas all our other public-facing content is probably getting scraped constantly by unknown people for unknown purposes, and there’s literally nothing we can do about it (except to remove ourselves from the open web).