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.

  • @iAvicennaEnglish
    4•5 months ago

    I feel like the bad thing about this is, whereas the researchers will mostly respect this, companies who want to make money out of data will still secretly keep using the data anyways. I am more ok with the data being used for non-profit research and not for making money but this would likely have the opposite effect.

    • PennomiEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      If that’s truly the case, nothing on earth can protect your data.

      That being said, large corporations are far more liable to consumer protection lawsuits, especially in areas like the EU.

      • @iAvicennaEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        They also have enough lawyer power to find loop holes. Stuff like if your main compute cluster is in xyz state or in xyz islands then you can get away with a fine the fraction what you can make with this data.