absolutely flabbergasted that some players 1) seem completely blind-sided by the idea that a lot of those guests were bots and 2) that FR was somehow safe from said bots and therefore also immune to having data scraped from it?
like the first one is not a new thing at all? bots have always made up a large portion of "guest" populations on sites that track that sort of thing (people had guest trackers on early Tumblr ffs). and the fact that certain players somehow thought their writing/artwork was safe from being scraped on fr when sites with way more robust financing can't manage that is?? alarming???
like we already knew FR got scraped once before already due to FR dragons showing up in GenAI works.
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Re: AI shenanigans
(Anonymous) 2025-05-01 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)like the first one is not a new thing at all? bots have always made up a large portion of "guest" populations on sites that track that sort of thing (people had guest trackers on early Tumblr ffs). and the fact that certain players somehow thought their writing/artwork was safe from being scraped on fr when sites with way more robust financing can't manage that is?? alarming???
like we already knew FR got scraped once before already due to FR dragons showing up in GenAI works.
Re: AI shenanigans
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