Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts (Updated)
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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.

  • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    If that’s truly the case, nothing on earth can protect your data.

    That being said, large corporations are far more liable to consumer protection lawsuits, especially in areas like the EU.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 months ago

      They also have enough lawyer power to find loop holes. Stuff like if your main compute cluster is in xyz state or in xyz islands then you can get away with a fine the fraction what you can make with this data.