@zleap @FediTips Thank you @FediTips! I understand the visibility options and how Mastodon, by design, can't protect against all forms of scraping, no matter how much I wish there was a simple silver bullet. ️

@enthusiast101 Thank you, I'll look into this. Any obvious recommendations for such platforms? I already found #cara (cara.app) which includes Glaze, but (a) that part is currently disabled and (b) it's (afaict) not guaranteed that Glaze really helps.

@oblomov Follow-up: ugh... Glaze and Nightshade are not available for download for Linux. There's a portfolio service called Cara (cara.app) which has Glaze support integrated, buuut: "Cara Glaze is currently unavailable due to an abuse incident." Not a great situation so far.

@oblomov Yes, thank you! Poisoning before uploading seems to be the way to go right now. I'll run some of my pictures through Glaze (mimicry protection) and Nightshade (model poisoning) to see how it affects them.

@zleap @FediTips Thank you! Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of - I trust the fediverse to have its robots.txt (or whatever applies) set up properly, but I don't trust the automated stealing machine to respect it.

Question to the experts: if I start posting my creative output on #Mastodon, will it be used to train #AI? And if yes, is there anything I can do to prevent it?
Talking about original drawings here.

#askfedi #help