https://zeitgeist.blue is a multi-social-network app that summarizes your feed for the last 24 hours to let you catch up with doomscrolling.

[janl@narrativ.es]

@seldo how can I make sure my posts are never used by this app to be sent to an LLM vendor?

[seldo@alpaca.gold]

@janl You would need to block me from following you, I suppose.

[janl@narrativ.es]

@seldo you personally or some app account?

(Note that this kind of stuff is not well liked here on mastodon, I got browbeaten into shutting down just a search engine that worked that way, let alone exfiltrate a timeline into an LLM provider)

[seldo@alpaca.gold]

@janl Me personally, and also anyone who uses the app. It's just a mastodon client, fetching the timeline. It looks like every other mastodon client.

[janl@narrativ.es]

@seldo yes I know. I’ve written about my experiences extensively: https://searchtodon.social/Adventures-in-Mastoland.html

[janl@narrativ.es]

@seldo also you could honour the noindex flag on accounts and/or the #nobots hashtag in bios, both of which are conventions that have been established here.

[seldo@alpaca.gold]

@janl I was not aware of those! I'll add support.

[janl@narrativ.es]

@seldo I also strongly recommend reading my write up (no really) to save you some of the pitchforks that were thrown my way.

[seldo@alpaca.gold]

@janl There really are a bunch of tedious bastards on here, aren't there? I remember why I left.

[cowperthwait@sfba.social]

@janl @seldo “Names were called.” lolsob

[janl@narrativ.es]

@seldo yeah, but also folks feel their consent violated if their posts are going into a place they don’t want them to.

I understand that there is no way to prevent this, but that doesn’t mean these people’s feelings are invalid.

I am fine with my posts being in someone’s search index, but I want absolutely nothing to do with LLM vendors that will do god knows what with my writing.

[janl@narrativ.es]

@seldo and yeah, if you were more on here, you would likely not have built this as it doesn’t really mesh with the sensibilities here. (No offence)

[theorangetheme@en.osm.town]

@seldo @janl Try leaving again.

[dalias@hachyderm.io]

@seldo @janl I've followed you since back in the day on but if you put it like that, I guess I'll block.

[t54r4n1@mspsocial.net]

@seldo fuck off, scraper

[epic_null@infosec.exchange]

@janl @seldo AI summaries very much feel (to me) like the difference between quoting and plagarizing/putting words into my mouth.

An automated system that exists entirely to make up things that seem like I would say them? No thank you.

[lasagne@chaos.social]

@seldo
Well fuck you

[victimofsimony@infosec.exchange]

@seldo

Your profile has flags for both U.S. and Britain. Where are you? I'm asking because your client may violate laws in my country.

[fiona@blahaj.zone]

@seldo@alpaca.goldFeeding people's post into an llm without consent really comes down to you needing a broad #fediblock...