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What safeguards do we need? None, defederate, switch instances if you disagree. Fediverse is open, there are no rules beyond what the instance owner puts in place. Would asking a LLM “please evaluate this person’s political opinions” give different results than “find evidence we can use to ban them” (as used in the cases I’ve seen)? Yes. That’s out of your control though, beyond switching instances. What are our transparency expectations? None, beyond what you trust of the admins in putting in their own transparency expectations. You should not expect any transparency from the admin, these are random people you are trusting with your data. Is this acceptable and normal? It’s their server, they can do what they like. Acceptable or normal are irrelevant. Should this tooling be disclosed? (it was not – should it have been?) Again, who would force it? Even if Lemmy/Piefed forced a checkbox, they could just fork it to ignore that checkbox. Can we opt out? If the instance owner opted for that, it’s on a server by server basis Are there GDPR implications? Privacy implications? Should these tools be described in a privacy policy? Probably, but everything here is open and unencrypted, see my other comments. It’s hard to argue that what you put on here in an unencrypted and open platform which is then blasted out to any other server who wants to listen had an expectation of privacy. Are private messages being scanned and sent to OpenAI? You should assume your unencrypted open DMs are scanned by anyone. If privacy is needed, follow the guidelines and switch to something like Matrix for DMs. ActivityPub is open. How long should these assessments be retained and can we request to see it, or ask for it to be deleted? Per legal requirements, or asking your instance owner. Once the user’s comments are sent to OpenAI, is it used to train their models? Depends on how the instance owner set up their API usage. For a user, you should assume yes. What will the effect be on our discourse and culture if people know they are being politically profiled? Open to wild speculation, and I assume others will do that for me. Where are the lines between normal moderation assistance tools, political profiling and opaque 3rd-party data processing? About the same as before. Bias in, bias out. Whatever the bias of the mods previously had, positive or negative, will continue through.