Training AI on Mastodon posts? The idea's extinct after terms updated
Mastodon is the latest platform to push back against AI training, updating its terms and conditions to ban the use of user content for large language models (LLMs).
“We want to make it clear,” the federated platform stated in an email to users, “that training LLMs on the data of Mastodon users on our instances is not permitted.”
The announcement may feel like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted, but it’s still reassuring to know that users’ rants on the platform, in theory, won’t feed into the LLMs behind generative AI services.
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