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.

  • lunarul@lemmy.worldEnglish
    891·
    6 months ago

    I was confused why a package manager would need to import posts from a social network.

    Why name a new product the same as a very popular existing product?

    • MindTravellerEnglish
      181·
      6 months ago

      Obviously it’s named after Maven Black-Briar

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      I mean maven is super bloated so it wouldn’t surprise me