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
    291·
    5 months ago

    That’s why I keep saying it’s pointless to defederate corpos. They’ll just scrape everything before you notice.

    • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
      8·
      5 months ago

      Defederation is more about not being flooded with 1000x more users than the Fediverse currently has

      • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        5 months 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.

        • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Seems pretty easy for any corporation to setup something like https://lemmy-federate.com/ but for Maston/IceShrimp/Misskey accounts to federate the important corporate accounts to the targeted non-corpo instances

          • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

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

      • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Unfortunately a lot of people think it’s to do with scraping as well. The amount of “defederate Threads so that they can’t scrape my data” posts I saw was about 50-50 with the sensible takes.