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.

  • FinchHaven
    18•18 days ago

    @deadsuperhero

    Been looking into #Maven all morning

    Just going to copy-paste two posts

    The head admin/dev @jsecretan claims:

    “Happy to remove any of your posts from Maven and cease ingestion from those servers going forward”

    So, after the fact, individuals on Mastodon have to contact you personally and ask you to stop?

    Is that your position?

    Reminds me of Byron Miller (@Supernovae @universeodon.com) and his since-deleted “In four months of having full text seach [we haven’t heard from anyone who has be directly harmed]…”

    That last is a paraphrase because Supernovae has pretty much removed any mention of himself from the Fediverse, right down to deleting his involvement with Mastodon on Github, causing renchap to opine:

    “I suspect that @Supernovae closed it because they do not want to be involved with Mastodon anymore.”

    here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21398#issuecomment-2145321855

    Executive summary: there are a lot of people On Here™ who don’t appreciated every new idea all you bright-eyed young creatives can come up with

    • FinchHaven
      13•18 days ago

      @deadsuperhero

      Instructive to read #Maven’s #About page and see who’s behind it.

      Here: https://www.heymaven.com/about

      Selected excerpts from “Who is behind Maven?”

      “CEO Ken Stanley is an expert on open-ended discovery in both AI and human systems and … (most recently leading the Open-Endedness Team at #OpenAI ).”

      At: “Is Maven part of a larger company?”

      “No, Maven is an independent startup.”

      But

      "Here are a few of our investors, who also commented on their reasons for supporting Maven:

      -- Ev Williams, co-founder of #Twitter: “Maven lets you follow your deepest curiosities instead of the trends of the day.”

      -- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI: ”In Maven, there is a chance for AI to play a role in fixing much that is broken in our online discourse.”

      -- Rana El Kaliouby, co-founder of Affectiva…"

      Sam Altman

      #SamAltman

      Where have I heard that name before?

      • @fossphi@lemm.eeEnglish
        6•17 days ago

        Sam Altman

        Everything he touches tends to inevitably turn to shit. This guy and his fellow silicon valley cronies are scum of the earth