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2026-09-10 21:40:16

Ben Pate 🤘🏻 via Default Media Transmitter

benpate@mastodon.social

Hey #Fediverse.. I need to ask you a controversial question about #AI.

My software (including bandwagon.fm) hard blocks anything it can identify as an AI agent. It's the best blocking mechanism I could find, and it is important for artists who feel like their music is getting stolen by AI scrapers.

But AI is becoming the way that many/most people search the Internet, so that hard block makes you increasingly invisible to people searching the Internet.

What do YOU think we should do?

Let Users Opt-In to Allow AI Scrapers

7 Votes | 23%

Opt-In + Limit Text Differently From Attachments

3 Votes | 10%

Keep The Mandatory Block. No AI Ever

19 Votes | 63%

Something Else (Elaborate in Comments)

1 Vote | 3%

30 Votes in total
Poll ends