I feel like every day I come across 15-20 "AI-powered tool"s that “analyze” something, and none of them clearly state how they use data. This one seems harmless enough, put a profile in, it will scrape everything about them, all their personal information, their location, every post they ever made… Nothing can possibly go wrong aggregating all that personal info, right? No idea where this data is sent, where it’s stored, who it’s sold to. Kinda alarming

  • DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    110·
    19 days ago

    A toy like that is easy to create and not that expensive to offer.

    Right, and the developers of Bsky didn’t think to maybe block something that scrapes all that personal information?

    • VerPoilu@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      15·
      18 days ago

      Like Lemmy or Mastodon, BlueSky was made with the idea of federation. While BlueSky is not there yet, federated services are inherently very easy to scrape.

      Maybe it’s time for people to understand that anything they post/vote/comment/like should be considered public domain.

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      18 days ago

      If that’s what you want, you should join Facebook.

      The fundamental thing to understand is that the internet - and really all information processing - is about copying. There is no such thing as “looking” at a profile or a post. The text and image data is downloaded to your device. You end up with multiple copies on your device.

      Sending information out, but blocking people from storing it, is fundamentally a contradiction in terms.

      Bsky - like Lemmy - made the choice to make the data widely available. It is available via API and does not need to be scraped. The alternative is to do it like Reddit or even Facebook or Discord. But they can’t stop scraping, either. They can make it slower and more laborious but not stop it. Services like Facebook protect the data as best as they can to “protect your privacy”. In reality, it’s about making it hard for you to leave the platform or anyone else to benefit from your data. Either way, you can trust Zuck to protect your data as if it was his own. Because it is.