Granted, I really don’t know much about how all this works, but the thought occurred to me that Lemmy - as wonderfully open as it is, and without any kind of ‘disappearing messages’ or other privacy protecting functionality - is basically a smorgasbord for AI scrapers. Or am I (hopefully) wrong about this?
Any community that is open or allows public signups can be very easily scraped.
Disappearing messages won’t help either, since things can be archived in real-time.
The only things that can’t be scraped by AI are encrypted private conversations where everyone knows everyone else and there are no public/unknown members. Or stuff that is just not on the internet in the first place.
It’s not something I worry about, I don’t post things on the internet unless I intend everyone to see them, and there’s not really anything I can do about AI scraping.