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.
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.
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Jan Lehnardt @[email protected] Mar 15
@seldo how can I make sure my posts are never used by this app to be sent to an LLM vendor?
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Laurie Voss @seldo @janl You would need to block me from following you, I suppose.
Jan Lehnardt @[email protected] @seldo you personally or some app account?
(Note that this kind of stuff is not well liked here on mastodon, I got browbeaten into shutting down just a search engine that worked that way, let alone exfiltrate a timeline into an LLM provider)
Laurie Voss @seldo
@jan 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.
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