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LavX News<p>Resisting the AI Crawl: The Battle for Open Source and Intellectual Property</p><p>As AI technology advances, the threat posed by aggressive AI scraping bots to open-source creators and their intellectual property has become a pressing concern. This article delves into the mechanics...</p><p><a href="https://news.lavx.hu/article/resisting-the-ai-crawl-the-battle-for-open-source-and-intellectual-property" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.lavx.hu/article/resisting</span><span class="invisible">-the-ai-crawl-the-battle-for-open-source-and-intellectual-property</span></a></p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/WebCrawlers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebCrawlers</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AIScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIScraping</span></a></p>
LavX News<p>Resisting the AI Crawl: The Battle for Open Source and Intellectual Property</p><p>As AI technology advances, the threat posed by aggressive AI scraping bots to open-source creators and their intellectual property has become a pressing concern. This article delves into the mechanics...</p><p><a href="https://news.lavx.hu/article/resisting-the-ai-crawl-the-battle-for-open-source-and-intellectual-property" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.lavx.hu/article/resisting</span><span class="invisible">-the-ai-crawl-the-battle-for-open-source-and-intellectual-property</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/WebCrawlers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebCrawlers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/AIScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIScraping</span></a></p>
olimobu 🎶<p>👀 Esta mañana al comentar los problemas de Wikimedia con el scrapping, un amigo programador me han hablado del proyecto Anubis <a href="https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <br>"Es bastante sencillo y fácil de implementar en cualquier web medio seria, te cargas automáticamente cualquier scrapper (sea de IA sea de lo que sea). Además, no pueden inventar nada que haga que sea rentable el scrapping con eso puesto." <a href="https://social.anartist.org/tags/aiscraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aiscraping</span></a> <a href="https://social.anartist.org/tags/aiscrapers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aiscrapers</span></a> <a href="https://social.anartist.org/tags/wikimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wikimedia</span></a> <a href="https://social.anartist.org/tags/anubis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anubis</span></a> <a href="https://social.anartist.org/tags/iahastaenlaputasopa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iahastaenlaputasopa</span></a></p>
jbz<p>🌐 LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut | sr_ht status</p><p>「 SourceHut continues to face disruptions due to aggressive LLM crawlers. We are continuously working to deploy mitigations. We have deployed a number of mitigations which are keeping the problem contained for now. However, some of our mitigations may impact end-users 」</p><p><a href="https://status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17-git.sr.ht-llms/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">status.sr.ht/issues/2025-03-17</span><span class="invisible">-git.sr.ht-llms/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/sourcehut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sourcehut</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/ddos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ddos</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/aiscraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aiscraping</span></a></p>
aproposnix<p>Serious question, isn't this an issue even with decentralized systems? What's preventing AI bots from just using all of our public data on the Fediverse? Is there any difference?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AITraining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AITraining</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aiscraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aiscraping</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askfedi</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/15/bluesky-users-debate-plans-around-user-data-and-ai-training/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/03/15/blue</span><span class="invisible">sky-users-debate-plans-around-user-data-and-ai-training/</span></a></p>
Friedemann<p>Hi <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Admins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Admins</span></a> 👋,</p><p>Can you give me quotes that explain your fight against <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AIScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIScraping</span></a>? I'm looking for (verbal) images, metaphors, comparisons, etc. that explain to non-techies what's going on. (efforts, goals, resources...)</p><p>I intend to publish your quotes in a text on <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@campact" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>campact</span></a></span> 's blog¹ (DE, German NGO).</p><p>The quotes should make your work🙏 visible in a generally understandable way</p><p>¹ <a href="https://blog.campact.de/author/friedemann/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.campact.de/author/friedem</span><span class="invisible">ann/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TDM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TDM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MastoAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastoAdmin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/DataPoisoning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataPoisoning</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/aitxt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aitxt</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/GPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GPT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TDMRep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TDMRep</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Kudurru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kudurru</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Nightshade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nightshade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Glaze" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glaze</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/FediAdmins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FediAdmins</span></a></p>
beSpacific<p>How to turn off <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/AIscraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIscraping</span></a> from your Word documents "<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> Office has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Word</span></a>,<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Excel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Excel</span></a> docs to train its internal AI systems. This setting is turned on by default, and you have to manually uncheck a box in order to opt out. If you are a writer who uses MS Word to write any proprietary content (blog posts, novels, any work you intend to protect w <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyright</span></a> and/or sell), u want to turn this feature off immediately <a href="https://medium.com/illumination/ms-word-is-using-you-to-train-ai-86d6a4d87021" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/illumination/ms-wor</span><span class="invisible">d-is-using-you-to-train-ai-86d6a4d87021</span></a></p>
Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social<p>The <a href="https://noc.social/tags/WebApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebApp</span></a>, called <a href="https://noc.social/tags/AdobeContentAuthenticity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdobeContentAuthenticity</span></a>, allows artists to signal that they do not consent for their work to be used by <a href="https://noc.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> models. It also gives creators the opportunity to add what Adobe is calling “<a href="https://noc.social/tags/ContentCredentials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContentCredentials</span></a>,” including their verified identity, social media handles, or other online domains, to their work. <a href="https://noc.social/tags/C2PA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>C2PA</span></a> <a href="https://noc.social/tags/DataScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DataScraping</span></a></p><p><a href="https://noc.social/tags/Adobe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adobe</span></a> wants to make it easier for artists to blacklist their work from <a href="https://noc.social/tags/AIScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIScraping</span></a><br><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/08/1105234/adobe-wants-to-make-it-easier-for-artists-to-blacklist-their-work-from-ai-scraping/?utm_source=press.coop" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">technologyreview.com/2024/10/0</span><span class="invisible">8/1105234/adobe-wants-to-make-it-easier-for-artists-to-blacklist-their-work-from-ai-scraping/?utm_source=press.coop</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>"It’s pretty crazy that not only a) these bots shamelessly harvest all your data without asking for permission and b) they do it in such a brute-force manner.<br>My coworker and security expert António pointed me to <a href="https://mato.social/tags/DarkVisitors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DarkVisitors</span></a>, and I’ll probably be installing their <a href="https://mato.social/tags/WordPressPlugin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordPressPlugin</span></a> on all my sites. For what it’s worth."<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@john_fisherman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>john_fisherman</span></a></span> on <a href="https://mato.social/tags/AIscraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIscraping</span></a> <br><a href="https://fred-rocha.medium.com/ai-crawler-bots-on-the-hunt-caf5a59ff478" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fred-rocha.medium.com/ai-crawl</span><span class="invisible">er-bots-on-the-hunt-caf5a59ff478</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>big scoop by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>404mediaco</span></a></span>: <br>"<a href="https://mato.social/tags/Nvidia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nvidia</span></a> employee leaked documents, Slack conversations, and emails to 404 Media showing how the company went about building a video foundational model that would feed into its other products. It's a fascinating look into how a tech giant operates as it's attempting to stay competitive in AI world, and how it gobbles up copyrighted content from around the web in the process."<br><a href="https://mato.social/tags/AIscraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIscraping</span></a><br><a href="https://www.404media.co/nvidia-ai-scraping-foundational-model-cosmos-project/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/nvidia-ai-scraping</span><span class="invisible">-foundational-model-cosmos-project/</span></a></p>
jbz<p>「 OpenAI and Anthropic have stated publicly that they respect robots.txt and blocks to their specific web crawlers, GPTBot and ClaudeBot.</p><p>However, according to TollBit's findings, such blocks are not being respected, as claimed. AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are simply choosing to "bypass" robots.txt in order to retrieve or scrape all of the content from a given website or page 」</p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-anthropic-ai-ignore-rule-scraping-web-contect-robotstxt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">businessinsider.com/openai-ant</span><span class="invisible">hropic-ai-ignore-rule-scraping-web-contect-robotstxt</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AIScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIScraping</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AITheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AITheft</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Infosec</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Security</span></a></p>
:blahaj: Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑<p><a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/LaughAtTheFlawedTechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaughAtTheFlawedTechnology</span></a> <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/AIScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIScraping</span></a> <a href="https://topspicy.social/tags/Enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Enshittification</span></a> </p><p>To me it is clear that a lot of Open AI / Google / Copilot teachings came from scraping porn and Instagram. "Realistic blonde / Japanese model face with odd hands" is a thing after all. But who looks at hands?</p>
jbz<p>🥸 Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent • <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.lol/@robb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>robb</span></a></span></p><p>「 I checked a few sites and this is just Google Chrome running on Windows 10. So they're using headless browsers to scrape content, ignoring robots.txt, and not sending their user agent string. I can't even block their IP ranges because it appears these headless browsers are not on their IP ranges 」 </p><p><a href="https://rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-is-lying-about-its-user-agent/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rknight.me/blog/perplexity-ai-</span><span class="invisible">is-lying-about-its-user-agent/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/PerplexityAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerplexityAI</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AIScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIScraping</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AITheft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AITheft</span></a></p>
jbz<p>What if these latest hacks are really about feeding big AI scrappers under the table, using databreaches as cover.</p><p><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Databreach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Databreach</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AIscraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIscraping</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Privacy</span></a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Infosec</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>Yeah, you're really gonna see which companies are just gonna allow the AI to scrape all their stuff now. I'm a copyleft/creative commons kinda guy. But if you have art that you don't want stolen, the answer is simple.</p><p>MAKE YOUR OWN WEBSITE and put your art there (edit: and use that Glaze type of stuff on your art that wrecks AI, just to be sure)! Neocities is SO easy to set up! Or your own domain and hosting via porkbun, GoDaddy (non-WordPress) - anything at all other than proprietary/walled stuff!</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/tumblr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tumblr</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordPress</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IndieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WeirdWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeirdWeb</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PersonalWebsites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PersonalWebsites</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OpenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAI</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AIScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIScraping</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Midjourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Midjourney</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Automattic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Automattic</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/neocities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neocities</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/copyleft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copyleft</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/CreativeCommons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeCommons</span></a></p>
:mima_rule: Mima-sama<p><span>Except this analogy doesn't really work because in </span><a href="https://makai.chaotic.ninja/tags/piracy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#piracy</a><span>, the small authors still get a chance at some compensation via recognition of their works. And as that work gets more known and popular outside of the artist's intended and known avenues, the losses they got from each unauthorized copy will get covered eventually by those who just have learned about their work and have the ability to pay for it. As well as those who pirated the work from years before (probably when they're still a kid who can't really pay) and now finally purchases a copy legally (e.g. they're now an adult and have a working credit/debit card)<br><br>You can't say the same of </span><a href="https://makai.chaotic.ninja/tags/AIart" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIart</a><span> / </span><a href="https://makai.chaotic.ninja/tags/AIscraping" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIscraping</a><span> which sucks off from tens of hundred thousands of artists, a lot of whom are probably not well-known to begin with and will not get any people interested in their works via your big </span><a href="https://makai.chaotic.ninja/tags/LLMs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a><span> and </span><a href="https://makai.chaotic.ninja/tags/AI" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a><span>. </span>​:seija_coffee:​<span><br><br>RE: </span><a href="https://hachyderm.io/users/db0/statuses/111810362742519284" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://hachyderm.io/users/db0/statuses/111810362742519284</a></p>
Dirk Schwieger<p>So many comic book people in the list of artists scraped by <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Midjourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Midjourney</span></a> without consent or compensation.</p><p>And it’s not just legends like Tezuka, Pratt, Crumb, Toriyama, or Moebius.</p><p>It’s living, breathing indie artists like Hope Larson, Pénélope Bagieu, James Kochalka, some of whom struggle to make ends meet every month – while Midjourney made $200M revenue last year.</p><p>Let the trials begin! ⚖️ </p><p><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.407208/gov.uscourts.cand.407208.129.10.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">storage.courtlistener.com/reca</span><span class="invisible">p/gov.uscourts.cand.407208/gov.uscourts.cand.407208.129.10.pdf</span></a></p><p>(via <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.art/@Victor_el_DM" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Victor_el_DM</span></a></span>)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/aiScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aiScraping</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ComicBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComicBooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/aiArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aiArt</span></a></p>
⛧ Victor J Merino ⛧<p>Hey, pals! They dropped the list of the artists Midjourney has admitted to being ripping out!</p><p>Time to call your lawyers and sue the shit out of these thiefs!</p><p>Even if your name is not on the list you should rage at this billion dollars theft scheme.</p><p>We barely get to the end of the month while these criminals get billions and billions from investment firms!</p><p>Fuck Midjourney and their owners! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/AIScraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AIScraping</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/SueMidjourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SueMidjourney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/JusticeForArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForArtists</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.407208/gov.uscourts.cand.407208.129.10.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">storage.courtlistener.com/reca</span><span class="invisible">p/gov.uscourts.cand.407208/gov.uscourts.cand.407208.129.10.pdf</span></a></p>