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Discord Shuts Down ‘Spy Pet’ Bots That Scraped, Sold User Messages (www.404media.co)

submitted 5 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Discord banned a mass of accounts that were part of a service that scraped and sold user data, including messages posted across servers and what voice channels they joined, 404 Media has learned. The move comes after 404 Media reported on the service, called Spy Pet, last week and verified it was selling access to genuine user messages ripped from Discord servers.

Since then, and especially over the last several days, the number of servers that Spy Pet says it collects data from has fluctuated, dropping from around 14,000 to 12,000, before eventually on Thursday reaching zero. As of Friday, the Spy Pet website is also unavailable, and Discord says it is considering legal action against the site.

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[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

404 Media should also investigate what they do with all those phone numbers they collect, as a security measure.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

What would you do if you found out I've been copying all your comments for the past week, changing them slightly, and then reposted them on a certain website without giving you any credit whatssoever?

[–] gaael@lemmy.world -2 points 5 months ago

Why are you so intent on giving them s**t about their licensing of their comments?
They cause harm to no one, they feel better because doing so is relevant to them.

I might be wrong, but your question seems asked in bad faith: I am under tbe impression that most people on lemmy servers have at least a basic understanding of the privacy and copyright infringements of the training of AI models.

Their will to license their comment probably has little to do with the very unlikely individual actions you describe and more to do with data licensing from big corporate entities.

[+] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

What would you do if you found out I’ve been copying all your comments for the past week, changing them slightly, and then reposted them on a certain website without giving you any credit whatssoever?

It's so weird how some people get so bent out of shape over this.

At the end of the day, its just a fucking link.

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So the answer is nothing. You would do nothing.

So what's the point of the "fucking link"?

[–] gaael@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

And what's the point of your comment, apart for trying to spark a controversy out of nowhere?

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So the answer is nothing. You would do nothing.

So what’s the point of the “fucking link”?

I'm not going to repeat myself all over again. I've already stated elsewhere in this conversation what I would do.

Stop being so angry, it's just a link.

And look, I made it even smaller, just for you...

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

Point me to where in this five comment long conversation you stated what you would do.

You should take your own advice kiddo, seems to me the only one angry here is you.

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Because it's embarrassing, there's enough cringe here as it is how am I supposed to say to people 'hey come and try out lemmy' when they're gong to see this sovcit Facebook mom stuff?

[–] gaael@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

how am I supposed to say to people 'hey come and try out lemmy' when they're gong to see this sovcit Facebook mom stuff?

They're going to read comments shilling for corpos, excusing China/Russia/Israel's human rights violations... and a link towards an open source license at the end of someone's comments is what you're worried about?

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Because it’s embarrassing,

I do what's right, and not what may or may not embarrass me.

I'm actually embarrassed that someone else would suggest not using a Creative Commons license to its full capability.

there’s enough cringe here as it is

Cringe is in the eye of the beholder.

how am I supposed to say to people ‘hey come and try out lemmy’ when they’re gong to see this sovcit Facebook mom stuff?

Just explain to them that Lemmy is a friendly and open place, where all different types of people with different opinions and ways of thinking can converse with each other freely, without fear of being harrased/insulted.

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