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AI scraping of Lemmy (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by possum@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Since Reddit content being used to train AI was part of what triggered their Dumb Actions™️, is there a way to deal with this on Lemmy? If there's a way to license API access or the content itself under, say, LGPL to prevent commercial AI from using it that would be awesome. With the way ActivityPub works I'm not sure if that's possible though.

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[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

That is actually a quite interesting question. What is the license of the content posted to Lemmy? Would it be legal to share posts? Or use code posted here in proprietary projects? Do people retain full copyright, thus make sharing illegal? Can an instance in its legal terms define a standard license for content (like stackoverflow does)?

Finally, who would enforce the license?

Also, I don't think people that scrape training data care about all of this.