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Mastodon founder touts Threads' federation, saying it makes his X rival 'a far more attractive option' (techcrunch.com)

submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can scrape Lemmy instances for training data without even running an instance.

[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, sorry if I'm not great at communicating. That's exactly what I'm trying to point out when I said:

Even if we don't federate with them, Meta can still harvest the data so we should add these protections regardless.

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's the thing, anything public is fair game. This is why Reddit is ruining their API.

[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

It's not fair game for for-profit bussinesses training LLM's. That's part of why Reddit made the move; so that companies would need to pay Reddit for access to the data for legally training models