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X to pause using European user data to train AI systems

X are being sued by the Irish data regulator for breaching the GDPR in processing European citizens’ data for Grok AI without an initial opt-out.

The pause is a temporary measure until they return to the Irish High Court.

It finally feels like these data vampires are being tackled even if the pace is a crawl.

Reverendender ,

How magnanimous of them. Also I don’t believe them.

NeoNachtwaechter ,

So they made some promises.

I know someone who is doing that quite regularly.

takeda ,

How can I make sure that with ActivityPub that my comments can’t be legally used to train AI? Does lemmy have some kind of terms of use?

DarkThoughts ,

They will do it regardless and just pretend they didn't. GDPR would already protect you if you're from the EU, but as you can see, they don't really care about that.

admin ,
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Legally? No idea. What might be adequate protection in the country your instance is hosted, is probably unenforceable in another country where a federated instance might be.

Technically, you could try by using your own, self hosted instance, and not federating with others, so they won’t be able to scrape your content as easily.

But realistically speaking, your comments are possibly more likely to be scraped on Lemmy, since it’s so much more open for bots, and your content is replicated to much more servers, not all of which may have noble intents.

Luci ,
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It’s going to really suck when they are told they can’t use the data they already trained it on. Lmao.

dinckelman ,

They can pause the rest of their service too, because no one needs to participate in this nazi echochamber

admin ,
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I stopped using twitter a couple of years ago, so I fully agree that one is better off without it

But when you reduce it to a nazi echochamber, don’t you feel at least a teensy sense of irony?

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