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X/Twitter has updated its Terms of Service to let it use Posts for AI training (stackdiary.com)
submitted 1 year ago by skilledtothegills@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Here's the kicker: based on these AI-assigned definitions in the updated terms, your access to certain content might be limited, or even cut off. You might not see certain tweets or hashtags. You might find it harder to get your own content seen by a broader audience. The idea isn't entirely new; we've heard stories of shadow banning on Twitter before. But the automation and AI involvement are making it more sophisticated and all-encompassing.

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[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I take issue with literally zero percent.

How many of us came here over the reddit debacle? I can tell you for certain it isn’t zero.

[–] coheedcollapse@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I shouldn't have said "literally zero", but considering how small our community here is compared to Reddit, or Mastodon compared to X, it is, arguably, functionally zero, and something as obscure as a TOS change that allows scraping for AI is much less likely to drive many people off of a site as something as drastic as destroying the entire mobile app ecosystem, ala Reddit.

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re most probably correct and I was just being overly pedantic.

[–] coheedcollapse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I get it - I appreciate the correction anyway!