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.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•5 months ago

    Just because our data is accessible doesn’t mean it’s legally licensed to be used by a for profit company. Free doesn’t meant you can do what you want with it, it just means no cost.

    • @danc4498English
      2•5 months ago

      I don’t disagree. I’m just saying that so long as you’re putting content on this platform, you are powerless to stop any service from using the features of the platform in whatever way they want.

      It was built for easy and open consumption of user content by other services.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•5 months ago

        Oh yeah for sure. Anything I type here is for the whole world to see and I’m okay with that as long as it’s anonymous.