That’s a very good shout, I wasn’t aware there are pre existing lists. That’s a great step, and definitely one I will look to add to my own instance.
There are lists of bots that instance Admins can block for a range of reasons.
Anything online can be scraped but big firms might run into regulatory trouble if they are caught randomly scraping sites without consent. At the moment, the big social media apps have a tonne of content to train on in tightly controlled conditions, so they don’t really need to go into the wild, yet. However, we need to be vigilant, block them and make a fuss if we catch them at it.
kane@femboys.biz 5 weeks ago
Emperor@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
We just added it as the old frontend was getting hammered by bots - it helped a lot.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
What’s to stop a company from standing up their own instance?
If they only create an admin account and then federate to every instance, now they have everyone’s content.
I’m suddenly realizing the anti-AI blurbs people add to their comments now make sense.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
IANAL, but the way the federation by necessity copies your posts and information to every instance there is and to be able to do that it all needs to be under a licence that allows it to happen, those blurbs almost certainly are legally entirely meaningless. The only thing I can think of is claiming a non-commercial use violations, but that could put every instance that runs on donations under fire as well.