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.

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    5 months ago

    For me, more specifically, the problem is they took my data and made a tool to sell it back to me without paying me for it.

    I have no real issue with current ai stuff, other than you’re effectively taking our stuff and want us to pay you for doing so.

    If they weren’t freeloading on everyone, I suspect you’d have a lot less angry people.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      This. If Maven offered me a stipend for life to have my content used (because they’re not going to remove it in 3 or 6 months, right? once ingested it’s there forever), then I would be far more open to at least discussing their terms.