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.

  • FlaxEnglish
    1•5 months ago

    Does Maven have anything to do with AI despite being backed by a dude who works for open AI?

    • Sean TilleyOPEnglish
      1•5 months ago

      Yes, the entire platform trains itself on posts within its platform to make algorithmic decisions and present it to users. Instead of likes or follows, you just have that.

      • FlaxEnglish
        1•5 months ago

        But it doesn’t actually produce content that’s AI generated by an LLM model?