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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] guts@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is Lemmy protected of scraping our data for AI?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The opposite; the API to simply take comments and posts in bulk is free and open.

[–] guts@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can an instance close the API or limit it?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

In theory, yes, but instances don't ship with the ability to do that. There would need to be a change to the Lemmy code base if such a thing was to be seriously implemented.

I'm no federation expert, so I can't really comment on whether doing something like requiring API keys would be feasible, unfortunately.