Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training
a year ago
- #Data Privacy
- #AI
- #Social Media
- Social networks like Mastodon are updating terms of service to prohibit AI model training and data scraping.
- Mastodon's new terms explicitly ban scraping user data for LLM training, effective July 1.
- The updated terms include legal language against automated systems like scrapers and data mining tools.
- These rules currently apply only to Mastodon.social, leaving other fediverse servers potentially vulnerable to scraping.
- Other platforms, including OpenAI and Reddit, have also introduced similar anti-scraping clauses.
- Mastodon is raising its global age limit for users from 13 to 16 years.