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.

  • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

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

    • misk@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      6 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·
        6 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·
          6 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.

    • IronKrillEnglish
      1·
      6 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.