Post #1916979
2026-04-25 18:26 UTC
@madsenandersc all clients on the Fediverse should hopefully use the ActivityPub protocol, and if a client happens to be a bot or AI scraper, I would expect them to read the field that tells them they can't do LLM training and/or personal profiling. Hopefully we can afford enforcement to tell if an LLM model suddenly contains data that was labeled to not allow this.
Even better if data protection laws like GDPR provided this protection by default, though.
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@madsenandersc@social.vivaldi.net 2026-04-25 19:46
@benjaoming Again, it's a protocol, not an application. Think about it: It is not the protocol that exposes the content to the AI scraper - it is the application. Spam is not prevented by legal restrictions of the SMTP-protocol either - it's a feature in the application instead, and it is usually activated by the user (or at least possible to deactivate). I understand what you want, and I get the reasons for it, but restricting what protocols can carry and for whom, is usually a bad idea in the long run. There is a always a use case that you did not think of, and suddenly people starts forking or modifying new versions of the protocol, with backwards compatibility going down the drain.