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AI crawlers accessed 329 GB of data from Mastodon user

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A Mastodon user reported sending 329 GB of data in response to over 124 million requests from AI crawlers. The user expressed dissatisfaction with the volume of data being accessed by these automated systems. This incident highlights concerns about the data consumption by large language models and AI training processes. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential data privacy and resource consumption concerns for AI training.

RANK_REASON User complaint about data usage by AI crawlers, not a verifiable event or new model/product release.

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AI crawlers accessed 329 GB of data from Mastodon user

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

    Just awk'ed the sum of all the garbage iocaine shipped to AI crawlers for all of my hosts. :blobcatgiggle: 329 GB Shipped to 124,291,278 AI crawler requests. :b

    Just awk'ed the sum of all the garbage iocaine shipped to AI crawlers for all of my hosts. :blobcatgiggle: 329 GB Shipped to 124,291,278 AI crawler requests. :blobcat_thisisfine: Noice. # iocaine # ai # llm # claude # OpenAI # FckAI # FckLLMs

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