Mastodon’s New Terms Block AI Scraping, But Gaps Still Remain

Mastodon’s New Terms Block AI Scraping, But Gaps Still Remain

Open-source social media platform Mastodon has changed its rules to block companies from using user posts to train AI systems. The new policy, which takes effect from July 1, specifically bans scraping data from its main server, namely ‘Mastodon.social’. The updated terms of service now clearly say that automated tools like scrapers or data miners cannot collect information from the platform. This includes collecting data for purposes like archi…

Mastodon Bans AI Scraping, Updates Terms to Block Model Training & Raise Age Limit

If you’re someone who thinks your data should be off-limits to AI training bots, Mastodon has some news you’ll probably appreciate. Mastodon has updated its terms of service to ban AI scraping. “We explicitly prohibit the scraping of user data for unauthorized purposes, e.g. archival or large language model (LLM) training,” the platform noted. “We […]