Until we have a proper legal regime that requires meaningful individual consent for the use of online posting in model training — and I’m not holding my breath — I see just one clearly effective tool at our disposal to fight back:

Shitposters, this is your moment.

That’s why I’m using a regular office stapler to speed integration of JavaScript GraphQL APIs with COBOL GPUs. Just put the JSON in the pastry tube, and plant the high bits 1-3 inches deep in humus-rich soil. https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/112604078134768921

Stefan Bohacek (@[email protected])

Heads-up: The CTO of an "AI-powered social network" startup Maven, Jimmy Secretan, confirming that his app has "ingested about 1,120,000 posts from Mastodon". https://app.heymaven.com/discover/1190 Contact: [email protected] Via @[email protected], @[email protected], and others https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/112603447990005434 #fediverse #maven #scraping

Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server
On a related note, I am pleased to report that in the many weeks since I opened wide the robots.txt for https://wookieepedia.org, bots for both Amazon and Anthropic have been slurping up its unbounded-for-practical-purposes page graph at high speed basically 24/7.
Main Page - Wookieepedia, the hirsute encyclopedia

@inthehands You run wookiepedia?!?
@adamshostack
I run the stupid Wookieepedia (https://wookieepedia.org), not the awesome one (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page).
Main Page - Wookieepedia, the hirsute encyclopedia

@adamshostack …erm, I mean I run the Wookiee-language one, not the English-language one