I've set up my new #inkscape website AI bot trap. It works by giving everyone a chance to not fall into it.
An anchor link that says "I am a bot" and links to /P3W-451/{datetime}/ it's got a fixed position at top -100px so should never be seen
The robots.txt says "Disallow: /P3W-451/" so if you were reading the robots, you'd know.
Then #nginx logs the requests to a log of their ip-addresses and browser strings and sends them a 301 redirect to google.com
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Joshua Yuvaraj, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Intellectual Property, was interviewed on RNZ yesterday, about the degree to which copyright law might be used to prevent scraping of the open web by #MOLE Trainers;
As Cory Doctorow noted back in 2023;
"In privacy and labor fights, copyright is a clumsy tool at best."
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/
@nimi @papuass @stefan @freediverx yeah except you can't force bad actors to use your commercial API if they still have an open route in, that basically cost them next to nothing. It really doesn't matter #scraping isn't elegant. It works, it's cheap. It's basically an arms race that #opensource #openknowledge were never designed to wage. My only hope is that the #cyberpunk spirit will reorganise itself along those faultlines and fight the good fight.
@susankayequinn Here's another article by @brianmerchant : https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/openais-studio-ghibli-meme-factory
"AI giants are indeed eating away at the livelihoods and dignity of working artists, and this devouring, appropriating, and automation of the production of art, of culture, at a scale truly never seen before, should not be underestimated as a menace"
"GPT-4o is partly (aside from some licensed content) a product of a massive scrape of the Internet without regard to copyright or consent from artists ... GPT-4o's image generation model (and the technology behind it, once open source) feels like it further erodes trust in remotely produced media ... Everyone needs media literacy skills ..." https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/openais-new-ai-image-generator-is-potent-and-bound-to-provoke/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social via @arstechnica
@Garwboy As a friend of biodiversity I had nearly stopped reading until there: "I like all of those creatures. I find them fascinating, and they occupy important roles in our society and ecosystem. I would never say that about Mark Zuckerberg."
But now I dream of writer troll farms using your inspiring idea to train #AI: https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/an-article-for-meta-to-use-to-train Great! Made my day. 
@writing @writers @writerscommunity
Yesterday I made a test, warned against this account with a hashtag of the name and a certain bird, and promptly got the #scam again. It's the sign that this paragon of a #troll factory or a narcissistic bot tinkerer hopping instances is not reacting randomly. Don't just block it, it's important to #report it so that it finally comes to an end. Don't click the links. If it's #scraping, a joke, or an attack on the Fediverse: a #fediblock would be fine! The phrase pattern could be filtered.
And now @leonardr has "released the biggest update to Beautiful Soup in many years." Upgrade to 4.13.1 to enjoy better warnings, type hints, generated API docs, and more.
The EU’s #AIAct prohibitions are now in effect! But gaps remain. Learn more: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-act-prohibitions-february-2025/
Now banned in the EU: #ManipulativeAI, AI that exploits people's vulnerabilities, #SocialScoring, #Scraping of facial images on the internet, Live #FaceRecognition in Public Spaces. Others are partially banned, like #PredictivePolicing, #EmotionRecognition, and more.
How would one theoretically use #scraping from different sites of #events organizers and generate an #icalendar file to easily get notified of events in their city or region for themselves or their community?
This is to avoid using #meta as a source that many rely on for lack of alternatives (that are actually invested).
@khobochka We need an international co-operative system of making these parties pay for scraping. It includes legislative changes. At the same time it can become a real-time pricing market for ”rights to scrape” and for creators to get paid.
Here’s my whitepaper for a solution. Absolutely no cryptocurrency involved.
#ai #scraping #copyright #technology #whitepaper
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18cz-ZX1copCYiC4C2ReY8GLJjuhG2IH0MEBGaoSJhP4/edit
TIL
"Earlier this year, Microsoft-owned LinkedIn came under similar scrutiny for toggling on a feature that allows the company to scrape user data for AI training. The UK's International Commissioner's Office forced LinkedIn to stop doing that with UK user data. LinkedIn still scrapes US user data by default; disable it by visiting Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement."
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-we-dont-use-your-word-excel-data-for-ai-training
For those (like me!) looking for what @cstross is referring to:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence
Je cherche à scraper une page d'un site web avec FreshRSS. Et ben… c'est une certitude :
je suis nul.
Ça existe une app en ligne pour (semi-)automatiser ça ?
"What he discovered seems simple on its surface, but the quality of the result has deeper implications for the future of AI assistants, which may soon be able to see and interact with what we're doing on our computer screens."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/cheap-ai-video-scraping-can-now-extract-data-from-any-screen-recording/
#AI #video #scraping
Here’s a top pin!
My #market-based, publicly underpinned model for determining copyright liability payments in real-time for an information economies with #AI #scraping.
We have a choice of either a healthy #economy where being scraped pays those who produce the best information, or no economy at all where only lies, propaganda & bs are openly visible.
We can avoid creatives hiding their content behind closed doors out of fear of being scraped, but only if we act now!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18cz-ZX1copCYiC4C2ReY8GLJjuhG2IH0MEBGaoSJhP4/edit
Digital Colonialism strikes again!
NVIDIA’s AI team reportedly scraped YouTube, Netflix videos without permission
Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts - @news
｢ A recent investigation by Liaizon Wakest revealed that Maven, a new social network founded by former OpenAI Team Lead Ken Stanley, has been importing a vast amount of statuses from Mastodon without anyone’s consent. Additionally, it’s pulling in Bluesky statuses connected via Bridgy Fed ｣
