The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.

    • joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      If they could somehow make this data available to search engines. Maybe we can start being able to google random problems and actually find solutions again.

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      7 months ago

      the content being scraped is from users, they do not control what bots are added to servers.

      It’s much more like the Cambridge Analytics scandal in that users posted content that was shared with friends but not explicitly shared publicly, but those friends then granted a third party access to all of the data.

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      7 months ago

      This is assuming the bots are allowed (or, at least not prevented in coming) in by the server admin and the bot is not obfuscated some how. If the bots are taking advantage of an expolit, or not being up front, then we have trouble.