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Clarkesworld<p>I've been helping some friends and colleagues block some of the site scraping bots that are feeding "AI" models. Decided to take some of my notes and make something others could use too. It's a work-in-progress. Happy to add to or correct things.<br><a href="https://neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots-that-feed-ai-models-by-scraping-your-website/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots</span><span class="invisible">-that-feed-ai-models-by-scraping-your-website/</span></a></p>
evacide<p>It has come to my attention that some of you are very concerned about data brokers collecting your data, but are not familiar with the work of <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@yaelwrites" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>yaelwrites</span></a></span> and the Big-Ass Data Broker Opt Out List. Please enjoy: </p><p><a href="https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-</span><span class="invisible">Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List</span></a></p>
Erin Kissane<p><a href="https://genders.wtf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">genders.wtf</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.effy.space/@effy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>effy</span></a></span> is extremely good, please submit more bad forms asap</p>
Gabriel Grill<p>The different timelines on Mastodon explained</p>