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Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training
Social networks are bolstering their terms of service against scrapers and bots that crawl the website to train AI models. Days after Elon Musk-owned X
The new terms, which will be applicable to the social network starting July 1, have legal language that prohibits any data extraction and development of an automated system. “Use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, offline reader, or any data mining or similar data gathering extraction tools to access the Instance, except in each case as may be the result of standard search engine or Internet browser and local caching or for human review and interaction with Content on the Instance,” the terms note. This means scrapers could still extract data from other servers and use that to train AI models if they don’t explicitly bar that in their terms of service.
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