If you feed somebody's posts into your shitty LLM without an explicit and reversible opt-in, you are violating the consent of fedi users.

This "Zeitgeist" app not only violates consent, but it also doesn't have a centralized ActivityPub identity that can be blocked or defederated.

#FediAdmin #Fediblock

https://alpaca.gold/@seldo/116229243453108157

The creator is making pretty clear that it's designed this way to make it harder to block.

Normally, you'd expect an LLM scraper to have a single (blockable) ActivityPub account doing the scraping.

This is designed so that everybody who uses the service has their identities harvested to steal people's data on the app's behalf.

#FediBlock #FediAdmin

@fedilore
I'm super thrilled with his, "now I know why I left," attitude about being called on his BS. Seems weird to build a tool for a service he doesn't intend to use... that is unless the main purpose is data harvesting.
@TheGreatLlama That's because the main purpose is data harvesting. 🤷
@fedilore
It's pretty hard to draw another conclusion.