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.
Magnus Ahltorp@mcc I don’t know who this person is, so maybe it’s obvious that they participated in those debates, but it’s fully possible for a person to be on Mastodon for a long time and read a completely different set of posts than me.
There are very many people on Mastodon, and there are bound to be many different ”communities”. Even though we post in this huge undifferentiated heap without any ”forums” or ”groups”, we choose who to follow, and we get posts from exactly them.
Phil Dennis-Jordan@ahltorp @mcc He was one of the founders of NPM Inc together with the original author of the npm JS package repository. IIRC he was on Mastodon for a while but eventually wandered back to X or Bluesky because he didn’t like something or other here.
He returned briefly spouting some AI-bro nonsense a while back, this didn’t go down well with his existing followers, so he high-tailed it again.
I’m scratching my head as to why he thought this tool would be popular here.
He returned briefly spouting some AI-bro nonsense a while back, this didn’t go down well with his existing followers, so he high-tailed it again.
I’m scratching my head as to why he thought this tool would be popular here.