In response to growing concerns over data privacy, social networks like X and Mastodon are updating their terms of service to prohibit scraping and unauthorized use of user data for AI model training. Mastodon’s new rules, which take effect on July 1, explicitly bar data extraction and automated tools from accessing its network, underscoring the need to protect user information. Additionally, Mastodon is raising its user age limit from 13 to 16 globally, reflecting its commitment to ensuring a safer environment. These changes align with similar moves from other social platforms.
"We explicitly prohibit the scraping of user data for unauthorized purposes, e.g. archival or large language model (LLM) training."
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