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Granted, I really don't know much about how all this works, but the thought occurred to me that Lemmy - as wonderfully open as it is, and without any kind of 'disappearing messages' or other privacy protecting functionality - is basically a smorgasbord for AI scrapers. Or am I (hopefully) wrong about this?

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Once something is posted publicly, there's no "privacy" about it. Disappearing messages and stuff like that doesn't really help. There's nothing to be done about content scraping (which has been going on for decades).

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wait until they get a load of this comment:

"Penis ass vagina bitch."

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks, I just got suspended from school because I submitted a paper written by ChatGPT that called Christopher Columbus a "penis ass vagina bitch."

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That sounds historically accurate though.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah, this is one of those "broken clock" things.

[–] sjkhgsi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Absolutely got 'em

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)