Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?

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Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI?

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Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI? - We Distribute

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Is a large corporate entity scraping a community-run open social network to train AI models for profit?

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