Social networks are strengthening their terms of service against scrapers and boats that crawl the website to form AI models. Days after Elon Musk updated his terms Explicitly prohibits the formation of the AI modelDecentralized Social Network Mastodon has updated its own rules today to prevent any form of formation of the model.
“We explicitly prohibit the scratch of users’ data for unauthorized purposes, for example, the formation of the archive or of great language (LLM). We want to make it clear that the LLMS training on the data of Mastodon users in our instances is not allowed,” Mastodon said in an email sent to the users.
It New termswhich will be applicable to the social network from July 1, has a legal language that prohibits the extraction and development of data from an automated system.
“ Use, spear, develop or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, no spider, robot, trap utility, scrapers, out -of -line reader or any data mining or extraction tools for similar data collection to access the instance, except in each case, such as the result of the standard search engine or the Internet browser and the local cache, or the interaction with the human cache and the interaction with the the terms.
It is important to keep in mind that these terms apply only to the Mastodon.Social server, which is only one of the instances of the FederalA distributed network. This means that scrapers could still extract data from other servers and use them to form IA models if they do not explicitly explain this in their terms of service.
Other platforms, including Openai, Redditeand The browser company, They have added clauses similar to their rules to prevent other companies from forming models.
Apart from this change, Mastodon is also applying a 16 -year -old limit for users. The social network had an age limit for users in the United States, but it is changing the age limit worldwide.
