Remember when the fedi got upset over a shared a list of fedi servers that Meta apparently crawled for AI, without any actual proof?
Also, remember how Meta launched Threads, an ActivityPub service?
Despite my own criticisms regarding Meta, let's be real.
They don't need to crawl the fedi for training data, they kinda run Facebook and Instagram which provides much more data.
Let's not be so quick to grab our pitchforks without legitimate evidence.
@dansup - I for one appreciate that with being on Mastodon & Friendica instances that federate with Threads, I am able to see posts from some journalists & peeps of interest that simply aren't otherwise going to join Mastodon, without having to install a truly invasive Meta app, or create a Threads account. And given ActivityPub's default "publicness", AI crawlers are capable of sucking up most of our posts if they are ever sent in our direction, whether federated with Threads or not.
Just because they steal more on another venue it does not change the wrongness of doing that here.
FWIW.
We do federate to threads (not all, but some), and I think this is where the confusion stems from.
Let's not. Even if hypotheticals. What they do is wrong-wrong-wrong, and normalizing it, even remotely close, is how we got to nazi fascism erasure of democracy.
The #fediverse (excludes threads and bluesky which are centralized, corporate owned walled gardens) should be a haven from that.
All caveats, NGGYUNGLYD, AYBABTU, etc.
Because they have done NOTHING that has ever been good.
Ditto for caveats.
@dansup@mastodon.social Are you able to stop having extremely shit takes or is this what you do for a living? Yes, all those platforms provide much more training data, but let's be real, why would they use only those services training data when they can also crawl fedi and get even more data? That's what they do. Also it serves as a way for them to make a statement, because if they crawl us they're basically stating that even if we're not on Meta Platforms, they're still going to use our data. I don't know if they pay you to have shit takes at this point honestly. I think I recall a few other shit takes like this from you about meta.
And again, they don't need the fediverses data, they kinda have the two biggest social networks
#NSAbook aka. #StasiBookis the enemy and every single user of it needs to be treated like a #Stasi"unofficial employee" for that reason!
It's really easy to start a rumor that has not a single speck of truth.
