If sharing your content with AI firms is such a great thing for the publishers of blogs, you have to wonder why Automattic feels the need to enable it by default rather than insisting they opt-out…

Do we know whether federated content (say from Lemmy or Mastodon) with these sites may be under the deal as well?

They don’t need a deal with Lemmy.

It’s an open platform, they can just scrape all the data.

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Is that legal? When you sign onto a proprietary platform you usually sign away your rights, but with lemmy this isn’t the case, so scraping your data to use to train AI would violate copyright laws, right?

They could set up their own fully federated Lemmy instance and scrape themselves.

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They could, and we couldn’t stop them, but I think they legally couldn’t use content from other instances or even from users from other instances. Not that that will stop them, of course.

this may make it easier tho. as in, why set up another instance when you can just buy it from a well-known player?

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