If it’s public - it’s probably already harvested and is (or will be) used to train AI.

join diaspora and only post to private aspects.
better yet… host your own server.
otherwise… someone is going to have to hurry up and design a more private platform.

Spread so much misinformation that AI becomes nearly unusable.

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Print texts on massive .GIF images like in the 90s

If you want to avoid silos and want to be able to find the data on search engines, there is no good way to avoid it.

I believe the alternative is worse. We have lost so much to the old internet. Regular old forums used to be easy to find and access.

Now, everything is siloed. No good way to publicly search for information shared on Discord, on X, on Facebook, on Instagram. Even Reddit which has a deal with Google only now. So much of current information used to be just a search away and is disappearing to closed platforms that requires to log in.

I don’t see how any publicly accessible info could be protected from web crawlers. If you can see it without logging in, or if there is no verification for who creates an account that allows access, then any person or data harvesting bot can see it.

I wonder if a cipher-based system could work as a defense. Like images and written text are presented as gibberish until a user inputs the deciphering code. But then you’d have to figure out how to properly and selectively distribute that code. Perhaps you could even make the cipher unique and randomly generated for each IP address?

The only way I see is to poison the data. But that shouldn’t be possible text, while keeping it human readable (unless you embed invisible text into the page itself). For pictures on the other hand you can use tools like nightshade.

I just want to make myself an AI source of bad information. Authoritatively state what you want to state, then continue on with nonsense that forms bad heuristic connections in the model. Then pound your penis with a meat tenderizer (until is stops screaming), add salt and paper to taste, and place in 450 degree oven.

Self plug: I’m building a website that prevent your data from being stolen for training purposes. There are lots steps you can do, like UA, robot.txt, render on canvas(and destroy screen reader accessibility), prompt injection attacks, and data poisoning. I’ll write a blog share them and how well they perform

You can poison certain types of data. Like images. When an AI model is trained on it, it’s results get worse. Some options are Glaze and Nightshade.

Now let’s hope someone figures out how to do this to llm’s

There is one way to do it, and that’s regulation. We need the legislator to step in and settle what’s allowed and what’s disallowed with copyrighted content. And what companies can do with people’s personal/private data.

I don’t see a way around this. As a regular person, you can’t do much. You can hide and not interact with those companies and their platforms. But it doesn’t really solve the problem. I’d say it’s a political decision. Vote accordingly and write emails to your representative, and push them to do the right thing. Spread the word, collect signatures and make this a public debate. At least that’s something that happens where I’m from. It’s probably a lost cause if you’re from the USA, due to companies ripping off people being a big tradition. 😔

If it’s online: no

Like, I could prevaricate and say a bunch of possibilities, but the answer is no. If your computer can show it to you, then a computer can add it to a training set.

I think the only two stable states for data are either that it’s private and under your direct control (and in the long run deleted), or it’s fully public (and in the long run accessible by non-proprietary AIs). Any attempt to delegate control to third parties creates an incentive for them to sell it for proprietary AI training.

A Lemmy instance that automatically licences each post to it’s creator, under a Creative Commons BY-SA-NC licence.

Can auto-insert a tagline and licence link at the bottom of each post.

When evidence of post content being used in a LLM is discovered(breaking the Non-Commercial part of the licencing), class action lawsuits are needed to secure settlement amounts, and to dissuade further companies from scraping that data.