Social networks reinforce the terms of service against scrapers and bots that drag the site to train AI models. Days after the Elon Musk X was briefed, he informed his terms to expressly prohibit the training of the AI model, the Decentralized Social Network Mastodon informed its own rules today to ban any type of models.
“We explicitly prohibit the scraping of users’ data for unauthorized purposes, eg large modeling or training (LLM).
THE new termswhich will apply to the social network from July 1, has a legal language prohibiting any data export and the development of an automated system.
“Use, start, development or distribution of any automated system, including no restriction, any spider, robot, cheat utility, disintegration, offline reading or any data extraction or similar data mining tools for access to the appearance, except for any case of the internet or internet. of human revision and interaction with appearance. ”
It is important to note that these terms apply only to Mastodon.Social Server, which is just one of the cases in Fediverse, a distributed network. This means that scrapers could still export data from other servers and use it to train AI models if they do not explicitly block this to their terms of service.
Other platforms, including OpenReddit, and The browser company, They have added similar clauses to their rules to prevent other companies from training models.
In addition to this change, Mastodon also imposes a new 16 age limit for users. The social network had a 13th age limit for users in the US, but it changes the age limit worldwide.
