--- title: Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training description: Mastodon updated its terms of service to explicitly prohibit AI model training and data scraping, following similar moves by X and other platforms. The new... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training-ecbulqh2e twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training | daily.dev og:description: Mastodon updated its terms of service to explicitly prohibit AI model training and data scraping, following similar moves by X and other platforms. The new... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training-ecbulqh2e og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/EcBulqH2E.png og:image:alt: Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Mastodon updates its terms to prohibit AI model training **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Mastodon updated its terms of service to explicitly prohibit AI model training and data scraping, following similar moves by X and other platforms. The new rules, effective July 1, apply only to the Mastodon.social server and include legal language banning automated data extraction systems. The platform also raised its minimum age requirement from 13 to 16 globally. However, since Mastodon operates on a decentralized network, other instances may still allow data scraping unless they implement similar restrictions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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