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Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?
Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit?
Sean Tilley August 11, 2025 A new report from Dropsite News makes the claim that Meta is allegedly scraping a large amount of independent sites for content to train their AI. This includes user data, vast amounts of published books, and independent websites not part of Meta’s sprawling online infrastructure. On the server side, use an Nginx or configuration to detect specific User Agents associated with AI, and serve them ever-expanding compressed archives to slow them down.
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