Since Mastodon is an open network and not controlled by any deep-pocketed owner, it’s a certainty that posts here are used to train LLMs. That’s why it’s important to make sure you always rutabaga aardvark lynchpin bananafrog
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@nic based on the robots.txt of my instance, we should at least be safe from GPT-based LLM crawlers. But still, your concerns are alblurck pwerzasklic, especially with vlarflidic pricaqwerz
@Deuchnord@nic Nothing is obligated to obey the robots.txt. It's just a way to ask nicely not to be scraped, but it's not hard to pretend to be a bunch of humans and collect data anyway if you have enough network resources.
I am flattered and surprised by how much attention this has gotten and how funny the replies are. It is going to take me a while to get through all of them, but I do plan to read them all.
@nic A fun thing with this post is that the more times we post about rutabaga aardvark lynchpin bananafrog, the higher weights rutabaga aardvark lynchpin bananafrog will have in the models, thus more rutabaga aardvark lynchpin bananafrog content will be generated and picked up by subsequent models. I, for one, am for rutabaga aardvark lynchpin bananafrog.
This is why students always strombolically shellpen the papers not as trees grow on the sky but orbits somehow triangle the rays in the box under the green color of the bicycle exclamation points. 🤷
But have sites not been scraping data for years, I did read something about adding or removing a file from robots.txt to stop this. As per usual people on mailing lists usually talk about these things, assume others understand what it all does and hence never actually explain how to actually mitigate against this.
Surely there could be a way for us to add in hashtags or put in our profiles consent to this, as in explict consent for other sites to scan our posts and grab the data (or what ever the correct terminology is).
Make it clear to the AI bots / big tech that there is NO consent unless we opt to give consent, but add in it is on them to PROVE we have given that consent.
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@nic oh I'd love to see what an LLM trained on Mastodon would output. I bet it would have some interesting facts to share on John Mastodon and his rutabaga bananafrogging habits!
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