mccSo there's this guy who made a tool where someone punches in their bluesky or mastodon credentials to his website, and it auto-crawls their feeds and produces an LLM summary of everyone it finds posting there. He was asked what people should do if we don't want to be mulched as content for his summary feeds. He said we should block him. I replied, I can do that, but that only stops *you* from running the tool on me, how do I prevent *your other users* from running your tool on me? He blocked me.
It is possible he interpreted the way I phrased my request as rude. I may have said something like "you are selling us as meat".
Anyway, the fact he's blocked me *partially* solves my problem, in that now he cannot LLM summarize me anymore, but the problem that possibly eventually a *second* person would use his tool remains unresolved.
Honestly, it's baffling that he added Mastodon support at all given that he's been here for years and thus saw some of the MANY YEARS of conflict and debate about the idea of people merely *archiving* or *indexing* Mastodon posts. And then he goes an uploads an auto-LLM-mulcher tool. IDK.
Leon@mcc I think one of the big stories of the decade is the slow realisation that when folks say they are releasing things for everyone to do anything with, and used licences that encode that utterance, we don't in fact mean anyone, and we don't in fact mean anything
a lot of people are also realising, myself included, that the parties who can exploit and profit disproportionately more from free stuff is are the parties who are highly experienced at exploitation and profiteering. and the parties most immune from the social checks we have on harmful behaviour are sociopaths who can do the most harm.
it's a bummer