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.

  • @onlinepersonaEnglish
    1•13 days ago

    Why do you think it won’t hold water legally? There’s a case going right now against Github Copilot for scraping GPL licences code, even spitting it back out verbatim, and not making “open” AI actually open.

    Creative Commons is not a joke licence. It actually is used by artists, authors, and other creative types.

    Imagine Maven or another company doing the same shit they just did and it coming to light there were a bunch of noncommercially licences content in there. The authors could band together for a class action lawsuit and sue their asses. Given the reaction of users here and on mastodon, I wouldn’t even be surprised if it did happen.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

      • Venia SilenteEnglish
        1•9 days ago

        Don’t we also need a critical mass of people adding licenses to posts? So that a class action suit can be launched. Because it would be inviable and a very rapid path to self-defeat if people started to try and individually sue big corpo.

        Also I’m missing a way to automatically add this to my posts. Something like a browser extension.

        This post is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

          • Venia SilenteEnglish
            1•9 days ago

            Also for me I’m using a text expander so that after I type a shortcut it automatically adds the rest of the text for me.

            I request of you, show me your ways!

            • @[email protected]English
              1•9 days ago

              Well on firefox/chrome extensions you can search for text expander and choose an extension that works for you.

              Or if you are using a phone you can do the same on the app store and I think there should be a few options.

              Once you download one of them it should give instructions on how to use it, but in general it asks you to create a phrase that you want to be automatically triggered and a shorter phrase that automatically replaced with the longer phrase.

              For example-

              long phrase: The quick brown fox jumped over the moon.

              short phrase: /qfox

              and every time you typed /qfox it would replace it with “The quick brown fox jumped over the moon.”

              Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)