Dropsitenews published a list of websites Facebook uses to train its AI on. Multiple Lemmy instances are on the list as noticed by user BlueAEther
Hexbear is on there too. Also Facebook is very interested in people uploading their massive dongs to lemmynsfw.
Full article here.
Link to the full leaked list download: Meta leaked list pdf
Does this mean that some of the more unhinged users might actually be chat bots? Or are they just scraping our comments reddit style?
I assume scraping at this point. There’s likely a few hobby ones now, but if Lemmy becomes popular then there will be lots of bots for sure.
I guess they mostly scrape it. To waste resources posting here they have to find a way to make money in doing so. They put bots posting on facebook because they think it increases user engagement. They dont want to increase engagement on lemmy (not that it would work…).