Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts - eviltoast

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.

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    5 months ago

    So… if you don’t want your posts to be used… simply don’t post? Post in a place that has guarantees against such things? I mean, kind of hard to get mad about someone using something we all collectively just toss into the void…

    • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPM
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      5 months ago

      The issue is not that they imported the content, that’s how federation works, but how they did. Fediverse is built on consent, opt-in/opt-out is the one of the key aspects that makes it opposite of corporate social media. Apparently, they are so incompetent that they imported DMs which are between 2 users and not in the public timeline.