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.

    • JackbyDevEnglish
      2•13 days ago

      PM never implied any form of end to end encryption. It only ever meant people couldn’t see it apart from site operators. I genuinely don’t believe people thought it meant otherwise.

      • @delirious_owl
        1•12 days ago

        But on a federated system, everyone can see all messages. That’s expected.

        • JackbyDevEnglish
          4•12 days ago

          No, should just be your instance admin and the admin of the instance your messaging.

    • @QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2•13 days ago

      They’re called DMs not PMs

      ? Did you mean that the other way around? And if you did… forgive me, I don’t really use Mastodon. I was never much of a twitter fan. I don’t really like how all of my likes are public (although I guess I have had to get used to that with Lemmy).

      • @delirious_owl
        8•13 days ago

        No. They’re direct. They’re not private.

        • @QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5•13 days ago

          Ah, I see. So it’s the same mistake that Lemmy users make when thinking that Upvotes/Downvotes aren’t public.

          It sounds like DMs on Mastodon are public, but are commonly mistaken to be private then?

          • @delirious_owl
            2•12 days ago

            I don’t know why anyone would think any of this stuff is private. It can be pseudonyms, but that’s up to you.