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They can not legally just download and use what people share. Meta is under high legal scrutiny and this would be clearly against copyright.
If they can train AI on it is currently an open legal question, but for sure they can do it if you allow them to do it by federating openly with them.
if they run a mastodon instance, you'd be federating with them just as much.
are you sure these comments are somehow protected by copyright and they can't use them? when I post publicly like this I have no expectation of control over use.I'd be very surprised if I could somehow sue a company using this comment to train AIs.
I'd also be surprised if that status changed somehow if the server was then connected to threads?
If they run a Mastodon instance they would be defederated as well.
And yes you retain copyright over what you write automatically and Meta can't use it legally just like that. It doesn't matter how you feel about it, the only thing that matters is what is written in the ToS of your instance which you agreed to when signing up. Usually it has a clause that allows them to forward messages to other federated instances, which would include Threads unless defederated.
Training AI is a big exception to all this as it is currently not known how to deal with all this legally, as training an AI does not require to copy the content but rather just have the training algorithm "look" at it...
I can't find anything like what you're describing - my instance has a legal notice which is just a disclaimer saying they can't be held liable, lemmy.world has a fair use and terms of service which are 404s and their privacy policy just says they won't sell your data (but might use it for internal research) - can you tell me what you mean?
Well, if they don't have a ToS clause for that, then technically they are violating your copyright by sharing your contributions with other instances.
Most commercial services force users to completely sign over the legal rights for their contributions to the service.
On the Lemmy instance I am on the ToS clearly states that people agree to have their original contributions licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 or later license, which allows redistribution if certain terms are fulfilled.