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Post #1991929

2026-05-04 23:25 UTC

Very surprised this hasn't blown up yet. But in case you haven't heard, admins of so-far unnamed "popular" federated instances are feeding fedi users' post history to OpenAI for "political ideology analysis" under the delusion that this is an appropriate moderation practice. Surely there are others who might have a problem with this? @piefedadmin has the details: https://join.piefed.social/2026/05/04/ai-assisted-moderation-in-the-fediverse-is-happening-now-what/

Replies (10)

  • The fact that the instance admin(s?) responsible for sending the post history of a fedi user to OpenAI for "political ideology analysis" call themselves anarchists is simply tragic. How could anyone with this outlook trust and feed surveillance systems that reify hierarchy and make our worst enemies stronger. This is cop-think. The only conversation anarchists should be having about "AI" is how to most effectively sabotage and destroy this fascist technology Updated info from @piefedadmin : https://join.piefed.social/2026/05/04/ai-assisted-moderation-in-the-fediverse-is-happening-now-what/

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  • @jdp23@neuromatch.social 2026-05-04 23:39

    Yeah it is somewhat surprising. @laurenshof this relates to your observation a while ago that many things which would have caused major firestorms a couple of years ago now ... don't. @ophiocephalic

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  • @patatas@social.patatas.ca 2026-05-04 23:41

    @ophiocephalic A lot of the comments are focused on the 'scraping' aspect, which is important of course, but to me the more worrying issue is the reliance on tools created by an entity explicitly aligned with fascism - for "ideology analysis" no less. I'd like to defederate from any instance that thinks this is a good idea. Sunlight required here! @piefedadmin

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  • @jmax@mastodon.social 2026-05-05 00:33

    @ophiocephalic @piefedadmin Ummmm. Yeah.

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  • @cthon1c@kolektiva.social 2026-05-05 02:14

    @ophiocephalic @piefedadmin this feels like a defederate-on-sight level breach

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  • @Quasit@kolektiva.social 2026-05-05 02:16

    @ophiocephalic @piefedadmin Time for a mass defederation from those instances!

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  • @Miro_Collas@masto.ai 2026-05-05 02:31

    @ophiocephalic @piefedadmin Hum, this isn't good. :-|

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  • @ophiocephalic @piefedadmin the Fascists have been tagging words for a long time now AI will ramp it up. I think I'll start referring to them as assholes Vs. Nazis

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  • @mikefordays@mstdn.io 2026-05-05 14:37

    @ophiocephalic Unfortunate to see this drama pop up on my masto feed. Having read accusations and responses over on Lemmy, this issue looks overhyped. The AI in question is locally hosted. There is no automated scraping. Ironic to me that this mod action seems to disqualify someone from anarchism, while tolerating Zionism does not. @piefedadmin

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  • @onepict@chaos.social 2026-05-05 16:30

    @ophiocephalic ouf that's so unethical.

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