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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.

@Dss @Schouten_B @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux @atomicpoet Doing good? Fake privacy and simping for Google isn't "doing good".

@OdinVex @Dss @Schouten_B @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux Dude, you’re on universeodon – a server that got lots of blowback on the Fediverse because the admin met with Meta to discuss Fediverse integration with Threads.

So if you’re going to be all purist about this, perhaps use a different server.

Be that as it may, I’m politely asking you to be kind to others.

@atomicpoet @Dss @Schouten_B @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux Source on the fediversing thing? Just curious if true, completely unaware of that. If they do that I'd bail anyway.

I am being polite though. The only one you might could think I'm not polite to is the one collaborator, the Moz team claiming to be all privacy-oriented when their browser is becoming exactly not. I'm simply calling that out. If that's not polite then it appears to me Universodon is no different than Xitter/Threads, "cool with bull."

@OdinVex @Dss @Schouten_B @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux Source? Me. Your admin replied to one of my threads, and mentioned it happening—and this triggered one of the biggest Fedidrama storms ever. LOL.

I’m not going to hunt that down because it occurred nearly two years ago. But this is well-known Fedi lore, and was one of the biggest reasons behind FediPact.

And just so you know, I was affected personally by that because people were sending *me* death threats and my only crime was that your admin replied to me.

The takeaway, though, is that we need to dial down these purity tests because all it gets us is petty infighting—and drives people away from the Fediverse.

I think we all need to calm down and realize there’s another human on the other side of the screen.
Odin Vex

@atomicpoet @Dss @Schouten_B @contrasocial @ApostateEnglishman @majorlinux I'm still baffled by the whole "purity test" phrasing. I've not made any racist or sexist remarks of any kind, nothing about religion, nothing, just literally calling out disinformation (Mozilla claiming to care about privacy when they continue to introduce more and more anti-privacy features, from Pockets to search suggestions to DoH to APIs implemented to literally sell-out how well an advertisement performed...ugh.) So yeah, I don't understand this "purity test" thing you're talking about. Already disgressed from the conversations with those two anyway about Firefox. They're fanatic about protecting the state of Firefox despite everyone being able to see Firefox for what it is now so I don't think they'll listen to me anyway.