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Blocking AI crawlers on the fediverse (fedia.io)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Given how Reddit now makes money by selling its data to AI companies, I was wondering how the situation is for the fediverse. Typically you can block AI crawlers using robot.txt (Verge reported about it recently: https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders). But this only works per domain/server, and the fediverse is about many different servers interacting with each other.

So if my kbin/lemmy or Mastodon server blocks OpenAI's crawler via robot.txt, what does that even mean when people on other servers that don't block this crawler are boosting me on Mastodon, or if I reply to their posts. I suspect unless all the servers I interact with block the same AI crawlers, I cannot prevent my posts from being used as AI training data?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I wonder if content should carry some license automatically. Like if you agree to the TOS of an instance, your comments are automatically all licensed as CC:BY or CC:O or the more restrictive license of choice of the instance owner.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There's someone running around lemmy with a creative commons sharealike link as a signature. Quite funny to be honest. I can't remember the username though. They're bound to show up sooner or later :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah it was @[email protected]

You go champ! If an AI starts ending their posts with a CC BY-NC-SA license I know who to credit!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

You're welcome

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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