380
Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
380 points (98.7% liked)
Technology
34889 readers
511 users here now
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
Ask in DM before posting product reviews or ads. All such posts otherwise are subject to removal.
Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Would lemmy instances do this?
I know they can't afford to now, but hypothetically? A lot of people here don't seem to like data scraping for AI.
Your Lemmy posts are already being scraped for AI
The level of effort it would take to prevent would be infeasible to ask of even a non volunteer admin let alone a volunteer let alone literally all of them
That's what I figured, but I am envisioning a future where lemmy is huge and the network of admins is quite sizable.
I guess that doesn't change much?
It's structural - you can be open or locked down, and it's hard to decentralize if you're not open
You can make it easier or harder to work with that data, but ultimately it's obsfucation - you could make it hard to parse and obscure details, but ultimately if you want decentralized federation you can't hide too much