CassandrichHeads-up for anyone who doesn't want their posts scraped and handed over to an LLM.
https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116286099611905851
(Quote replaced with link since I was blocked.)
DB@lawyersgunsnmoney AFAICT he made a bot you hand your social media credentials over to and it logs in to all your accounts, scrapes everything, and passes it to an LLM service to "summarize" (and keep for training). Utter clownery. Normally I would just block, but I'm screenshotting and sharing this because it's a privacy threat to everyone.
Yvan ー イボん 🗺️ 
@dalias @lawyersgunsnmoney he them goes and insults everyone here who values privacy even the slightest to top it all off.
Then criticized the Fediverse and pointing reason why he left.
Just typical harassment/abuser "You are the problem, not me! It's all your fault."
GunChleoc@YvanDaSilva @dalias @lawyersgunsnmoney Thanks for flagging up which user it is. Blocked from my server along with the IP address of his prod instance of the tool.
@dalias I *very*much appreciate your sharing this info. It’s people like like this, stealing and monetizing Fedi people’s info (leaving aside he’s an entitled douche). I’m blocking him right after I ‘share my feelings”
For awareness:
@mastodonmigration
For awareness:
@mastodonmigration
wyatt@dalias @lawyersgunsnmoney any reason not to block the entirety of alpaca dot gold? without me having to go to check
@wyatt @lawyersgunsnmoney Not really. It's an instance with a single-digit number of users who are in his circle of friends. Your call if you think they deserve to be cut off from lots of fedi by association. 🤷
@dalias @lawyersgunsnmoney there are three users on my instance, two of which are active, and one of that subset is me and the other is much more block-happy than I am
@dalias @lawyersgunsnmoney hmm, npm founder
not somebody i would want to be a friend of a friend of, probably
not somebody i would want to be a friend of a friend of, probably
🌸 Ⓐnarkitty lumi-nhac 
@dalias this person really does not understand what consent is, does he?
ck0
Dopes The Frogman@dalias done. Don't need yet another weirdo wanting to scrape my sac for info
Faraiwe
tired@YvanDaSilva @xri Kinda, but I think the point is kinda to be able to dismiss people's opinions as whatever the slop-extruder claims is the "summary" of them, but pretend you considered them.
@YvanDaSilva @xri Like, if you have techbro brain and someone in your replies says something insightful in a way you haven't heard before, it has a chance of breaking thru and making you reconsider things.
But if you get it "summarized" by replacing it with a blend of the closest commonly-repeated stuff from your corpus, you're gonna interpret it as "oh yeah, just more of the same complaints I've already dismissed".
It's basically "turning your audience into yes-men as a service", which sounds like his peers would love it.
princess pancake 
@dalias that sounds like "blocking" here means not appearing on someone else's feed
The Mastodon API is publicly available and blocking the author of the app or the instance won't do anything
The Mastodon API is publicly available and blocking the author of the app or the instance won't do anything
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116289558240910154
@natty In the case of this app, it scrapes from its user's feed, so if you block its user, you will not be in the feed it scrapes.
These techbros want us to believe their "it's silly to have norms if the machine can't enforce them" bullshit. Here, whatever blocking we can do is a statement of our disapproval of their attempts to bypass our consent and reduce the damage, not a surrender of our standing to demand they stop doing things that technical measures fundamentally can't stop.
sarah tonin 
@SRAZKVT @dalias we have a flag for this https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/activitypub/#indexable but consent is not real I guess
@natty @SRAZKVT No, we do not have a flag for this. "Indexable" means I want people to be able to find my toots in search results. Not that I want to allow corporations to ingest them into their slop regurgitation machines and mimic my writing style but saying things I didn't and would never say and present those things as "summaries" of what I said.
Luisf
Queer Naèl@Barmaid on est d'accord que la personne + son instance + ses alias et les alias de son mari sont/vont être bloqués ? 😬
jiub 
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)@dalias shocking, the guy who sold out NPM is on board the slop train
Hashbangperl
khmtedious bastards who want to use social media to socialize with each other instead of minmaxing the Engagement
CC: @[email protected]
CC: @[email protected]
Keen Grasp🎯 exactly this. Everything about being human, filed under "tedium," and the only thing we can consider "not tedium" is Number Go Up.
G. Wozniak@YvanDaSilva @dalias I mean, if he leaves, he will not be missed.
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Cassander
Jadus@drsbaitso @dalias way ahead of you, thanks for the heads up (found this from browsing the global feed)
@Lisabet8931 Search for his profile, click the three dots, bottom(ish) option should be "Block Domain" or similar.
Light@drsbaitso
How would that work?
>[you'd have to block] Me personally, and also anyone who uses the app. It's just a mastodon client, fetching the timeline. It looks like every other mastodon client.
@dalias
How would that work?
>[you'd have to block] Me personally, and also anyone who uses the app. It's just a mastodon client, fetching the timeline. It looks like every other mastodon client.
@dalias
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[HANDMAIDEN] xan@dalias oh hey it's that union buster