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".
Mx. Aria Stewart@mcc Yeah. There's a thing going on here where that hits people in a sore spot (LLMs) that is in many ways out of bounds (you can't actually control other people's tools); the place it gets dicy is when you're running a service so you're promoting the use of the tools.
But in general, I'd be real mad at anyone who tried to control what I used to read with.
eanopolsky@aredridel @mcc I had a similar response to quote permissions: what good is turning off quoting for a public post when others can still use their "tools" to link to it? Someone explained to me that it's about making it easy to respect other people's wishes, for those who are inclined to do so.
Maybe it would be nice if this person added a more effective opt out mechanism? Or made their bot opt in? You'd still be free to implement your own LLM reading tool if you really want to.