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Mastodon user notes AI scraping prevention, contrasts with Reddit/Gemini interaction

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A Mastodon user reported that their query about AI scraping prevention was met with a response indicating such measures. This contrasts with a prior experience where Reddit appeared to cooperate with Google Gemini when asked about the user's political leanings based on their public posts. AI

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Mastodon user notes AI scraping prevention, contrasts with Reddit/Gemini interaction

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    @ proinsias IIRC I stopped (cancelled) then reran the query. What happened next was predictable: some blurb about prevention of scraping. That was thought-provo

    @ proinsias IIRC I stopped (cancelled) then reran the query. What happened next was predictable: some blurb about prevention of scraping. That was thought-provoking, because less than a week earlier (30th August) it seemed to me that Reddit did the opposite – cooperated with Goog…

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