Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts (Updated)
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A social network founded by a former OpenAI employee was caught importing public posts from Mastodon...and ran AI analysis to add tags to them.

Maven, a new social network backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, found itself in a controversy today when it imported a huge amount of posts and profiles from the Fediverse, and then ran AI analysis to alter the content.

  • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    17 days ago

    So far we only have a corpo fedi-twitter in form of Threads. In that case non-corpo instance user has to specifically follow someone before their content is federated so that sounds like a bit overblown issue.

      • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        17 days ago

        There’s no real harm in that unless they spam, at which point those accounts can be banned which shouldn’t overwhelm moderators.