▲ 526 ▼ At least 3 major outlets — The New York Times, The Guardian, and Reddit — have blocked the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from accessing their content (www.mediapost.com) submitted 5 months ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 64 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 28 points 5 months ago (2 children) Fuck Reddit. That website has been selling our data and using it to train AI... I say fuck 'em permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] ameancow@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) great catch! you can actually see the AI slop when it pops up. REddit is dead, and you should delete your data from that cesspool permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) FYI, any data on Lemmy can be used for the same for free. The federation infra can even be used to give AI models more direct access than even reddit is likely giving them. Just in case anyone is assuming that because this is community-run that it means the data isn't being sold. It's not, but it is being accessed by the same entities, if they want it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) The users are still the users though, not the product like Reddit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Oh yeah, not saying they are generally equivalent, just in that one particular aspect: access to comment data for any purpose. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* Yep. TBH I think it’s kind of silly for the Fediverse to try and block scraping, as long as that scraping isn’t effectively a DDoS. It’s public. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] ameancow@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) great catch! you can actually see the AI slop when it pops up. REddit is dead, and you should delete your data from that cesspool permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tackleberry@thelemmy.club 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) great catch! you can actually see the AI slop when it pops up. REddit is dead, and you should delete your data from that cesspool permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[+] ameancow@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 child) FYI, any data on Lemmy can be used for the same for free. The federation infra can even be used to give AI models more direct access than even reddit is likely giving them. Just in case anyone is assuming that because this is community-run that it means the data isn't being sold. It's not, but it is being accessed by the same entities, if they want it. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) The users are still the users though, not the product like Reddit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Oh yeah, not saying they are generally equivalent, just in that one particular aspect: access to comment data for any purpose. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* Yep. TBH I think it’s kind of silly for the Fediverse to try and block scraping, as long as that scraping isn’t effectively a DDoS. It’s public. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 child) The users are still the users though, not the product like Reddit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Oh yeah, not saying they are generally equivalent, just in that one particular aspect: access to comment data for any purpose. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* Yep. TBH I think it’s kind of silly for the Fediverse to try and block scraping, as long as that scraping isn’t effectively a DDoS. It’s public. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 child) Oh yeah, not saying they are generally equivalent, just in that one particular aspect: access to comment data for any purpose. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* Yep. TBH I think it’s kind of silly for the Fediverse to try and block scraping, as long as that scraping isn’t effectively a DDoS. It’s public. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* Yep. TBH I think it’s kind of silly for the Fediverse to try and block scraping, as long as that scraping isn’t effectively a DDoS. It’s public. permalink fedilink source parent