Dropsitenews published a list of websites Facebook uses to train its AI on. Multiple Lemmy instances are on the list as noticed by user BlueAEther
Hexbear is on there too. Also Facebook is very interested in people uploading their massive dongs to lemmynsfw.
Full article here.
Link to the full leaked list download: Meta leaked list pdf
Oh, right. I assumed “scraping” wasn’t meant literally. I assumed they were actually using an instance to pull in data (maybe using threads). Then training the AI off the data from their instance. If it is literally scraping, that’s petty dumb.