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.

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[–] [email protected] 126 points 8 months ago (36 children)

Pretty wild

[–] [email protected] 145 points 8 months ago (32 children)

The wildest part is that he's surprised that Mastodon peeps would react negatively to their posts being scrapped without consent or even notification and fed into an AI model. Like, are you for real dude? Have you spent more than 4 seconds on Mastodon and noticed their (our?) general attitude towards AI? Come the hell on...

[–] danc4498 32 points 8 months ago (20 children)

People can complain, but the Fediverse is built to make consuming user’s data easy. If you don’t want AI using your data, don’t put it on such an easily “scrapable” network.

[–] bbuez 15 points 8 months ago

Alternatively, use a closed ecosystem susceptible to data rot and loss.

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Would you want art to be unfindable because scraping for AI image generation happens? It's a solution looking for problems.

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