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Is there a way to protect data/user contents in Lemmy/Mastodon against now rapidly rising AI s? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Though Lemmy and Mastodon are public sites, and their structures are open-source I guess? (I'm not a programmer/coder), can they really dodge the ability of AI s to collect/track any data everytime they search everywhere on Internet?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

They can put a robots.txt file in their root structure which can tell robots (AI scrapers) to ignore that website. However that only works on robots which follow that rule, it's self enforced so it's a crap shoot of it'll be followed. Otherwise to be honest there isn't a lot a public facing website can do to avoid being scraped. Maybe put up a captcha on every page?