I stopped using Reddit because the company was feeding my words into a large language model, and I stopped using StackOverflow because the company was feeding my words into a large language model, and I will stop using Discord if the company starts feeding my words into a large language model
https://www.theverge.com/apps/673208/discord-ai-forums-anniversary-gamechat
@ErikJonker @mcc ofc anyone can send LLM ddos ai bot brigade from zombie subnet full of them to harvest data, which is likely will be noticed and action will be taken. (We're in a decentralized realm, right?)
Mastodon at least does not receive a direct profit from you being someone's training dummy for them.
@dark_phoenix @ErikJonker @mcc once my gitea instance was literally ddosed by Meta, Anthropic and Huawei almost same time. Last even ignored robots.txt and changed UA strings often. All of those except probably Meta flooded from thousands of different address spaces. This brought down my experimental RISC-V server to unresponsive state multiple times. Two years earlier no such floods were there, my site was calm and still.
Later, after blocking them all, bingbot also went crazy mode around beginning of April, and I banned it too. It disobeyed any directives too. Waiting for Google to start hitting charts...
And I'm not alone.
mcc
Erik Jonker
Andrey Rys
Sooraj Mishra