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Social networks strengthen their service conditions against scrapers and robots that crawl the website to train AI models. A few days after Elon Musk updated his conditions to explicitly prohibit the formation of the AI modelMastodon, the decentralized social network Mastodon has also updated its own rules to prohibit any type of model training.
“We explicitly prohibit user data scratching for unauthorized purposes, for example an archiving or large language model (LLM). We want to clearly indicate that LLMS training on mastodon user data in our cases is not authorized,” said Mastodon in an email sent to users.
THE New termswhich will be applicable to the social network from July 1, has a legal language which prohibits any extraction of data and development of an automated system.
“Use, launch or distribute an automated system, including without limitation, any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, offline reader or any exploration of data or similar data extraction to access the instance, except in each case that can be the result of a standard search engine or an internet browser and a local cache or for a human journal and the body ”, the terms note.
It is important to note that these terms apply only to the mastodon.social server, which is only one of the cases on the FediverseA distributed network. This means that scrapers may always extract data from other servers and use it to form AI models if they do not prohibit them explicitly in their service conditions.
Other platforms, including OPENAI,, RedditAnd The browser company, Added clauses similar to their rules to prevent other model training companies.
In addition to this change, Mastodon also applies a new age limit of 16 years for users. The social network had an age limit of 13 for users in the United States, but it changes the age limit on a global scale.
