Researchers are reportedly using data scraped from Mastodon to train AI models, a practice that has drawn significant criticism. The method allegedly exposes sensitive information about users, including children and educators. This data collection technique has sparked outrage and concerns about privacy and ethical AI development. AI
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IMPACT Raises significant ethical concerns regarding data scraping for AI training, potentially impacting user privacy and the responsible development of AI.
RANK_REASON The cluster discusses the use of scraped data for AI model training, raising ethical and privacy concerns, which falls under research and safety implications. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]