Comment on X to pause using European user data to train AI systems
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 month agoLegally? No idea. What might be adequate protection in the country your instance is hosted, is probably unenforceable in another country where a federated instance might be.
Technically, you could try by using your own, self hosted instance, and not federating with others, so they won’t be able to scrape your content as easily.
But realistically speaking, your comments are possibly more likely to be scraped on Lemmy, since it’s so much more open for bots, and your content is replicated to much more servers, not all of which may have noble intents.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s true as well that I hadn’t thought of, one could just spin up a VPS in a country that doesn’t give a shit about licensing agreements and Federate/subscribe with everyone and scrape that way. The only real defense against that is the federation, but that system isn’t very advanced and is easily bypassable if you don’t have a bunch of users
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 1 month ago
Better yet, just spin up your own instance, subscribe to all major communities, and have the servers push the comments to yours. No scraping required, and nobody will ever find out it was you.
Statistically it’s likely to have happened already.