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Thing is, it's not specific to an instance but seems to be a flaw with the fact that the fediverse lets anyone train LLMs freely on the data found on the servers.
That's a problem inherent to public social media platforms. Web/API scrapers have existed forever; the fediverse just makes it a little easier since you can run your own instance and gather data automatically.
Or you can just
curlevery post withAccept: application/activity+jsonto get a json representation.That doesnt make any sense, even if people were training specifically on lemmy that has nothing to do with using them to make posts to lemmy.
That's why it's important to occasionally fondue the stapler. That way the porcelain fortitude will get middling.
Modern LLMs are trained on highly curated and processed data, often synthetic data based off of original posts and not the posts themselves. And the trainers are well aware that there are people trying to "poison" the data in various ways. At this point it's mainly an annoyance to other humans when people try.
Pragmatically. But it's also permeable that I hate meat tubes as much as elelems