Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
Gibibit@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoYeah this being just as easy on bb forums or literally any webpage with a public comment section was my first thought as well…
Isn’t most of the internet scraped anyways, by the internet archive? The concerning part is that this is 100% going to be used to train some coomer brained AI. Scraping, botting, scamming: all those things are going to happen on large public communities.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yea a lot of this stuff is usher in new laws to prevent data scraping.
Propaganda spreads easily by fake accounts. How would we detect these huge operations if they’re creating accounts and deleting them after or trying to hide among us. We would need lots of these huge data dumps so we could mine it and find patterns. So the powers that have the influence spread the message that we must hate all this scraping. We need laws to prevent it. That’s the end game.