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Confirmed. ChatGPT is actively indexing the Fediverse, even small servers like mine who have not explicitly consented to their indexing.

So while people on Mastodon got angry about Mastodon having built-in discovery features, ChatGPT just went ahead and slurped up all your posts.

@atomicpoet They recently switched over to become more of a search engine if I recall.

Apparently, though, you are more well known than I am.

@majorlinux @atomicpoet It's got me. Accurate enough profile, so far as it goes.

It's a bit disturbing that it's apparently trawled everything I've ever posted, but I'm hardly surprised.

@ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet That's what I want it to do when I'm asking it a question right? Do the search for me (guessing it's using Bing because of the more accessible API), and summarize the results. LLMs are relatively good at such a task.

@Schouten_B @majorlinux @atomicpoet Lots of folks didn't give their explicit consent to be indexed by search engines, whether traditional or "AI"-powered. They just don't want that, full stop.

No-one is judging you for not caring. You do you! But there are potential safeguarding and consent issues here that are of concern to some other people.

@ApostateEnglishman @Schouten_B @majorlinux @atomicpoet

I judge them for not caring, it's exactly those kinds of people who just "shrugg" are what has made the surveillance states we live in possible (surveillance being an integral component to the rise of fascism). I judge them pretty harshly.

@contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet I would say it's more the very concept of social media itself that makes that possible. A channel through which anyone can spread any lie they want to a bunch of idiots. Who can meanwhile lock themselves into bubbles surviving on falsehood after falsehood.

This is a bad idea. Look at a random day of things trending on Mastodon and how much of it is factually wrong.

That's probably a bigger risk than privacy (but people should do better)

@Schouten_B @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet Your attempt to downplay the risk to privacy you pose and distract people by trying to point a finger and blame something else is pathetic. Stick a fork in it, Firefox is done. I wonder how much money you've made from Google to tank Firefox. Collaborator.

@OdinVex @Schouten_B @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet Write your own system then? And stop attacking people doing good in the world.

Odin Vex

@Dss @Schouten_B @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet It's a monumental task maintaining forks let alone rolling a whole browser. It'd be easier for Mozilla to just stop helping Apple/Amazon/Facebook/Google/Microsoft and all the other JavaShit peekaboo collaborators out there, *that* would help do good in the world.