mccMay 23

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

Show threadErik JonkerMay 23
@mcc maybe stop using Mastodon because any LLM can train on your posts 🙂
Show threadAndres Jalinton
@ErikJonker @mcc
Not legally, robots.txt disallows GPTBot from scraping the instance.
May 23 at 10:43pmWeb
Show threadErik JonkerMay 24
@Andres @mcc true, the problem is not everyone follows the law, also there are other methods maybe, I can just follow a massive amount of users and use all their posts as training data? 🤔
Show threadAndres JalintonMay 24

@ErikJonker @mcc
robots.txt works like passwords, sure anyone can guess passwords and get access to private data, but it's common agreement that constitutes "hacking", by crawling (even with follow consent) with the intent of train a LLM, it clearly breaks the spirit of the rules set by the server.

Anyway, posting "maybe stop using Mastodon" it's not nice btw.

Show threadErik JonkerMay 24
@Andres @mcc true, I was not serious about not posting on Mastodon, I really like this platform 😃