Heads-up: The CTO of an "AI-powered social network" startup Maven, Jimmy Secretan, confirming that his app has "ingested about 1,120,000 posts from Mastodon".
https://app.heymaven.com/discover/1190
Contact: jimmy@heymaven.com
Via @liaizon, @djsundog, and others https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/112603447990005434
#fediverse #maven #scraping
Discovered this morning that Maven https://heymaven.com (a social media startup who's CEO is ex OpenAI "Ken Stanley: leading the Open-Endedness Team at OpenAI") is mass importing public posts from the #fediverse with no links back to the original and no way to delete them. It seems there is no Opt-out or Opt-in mechanism at all. It also has posts from #Bluesky pulled in via @bsky.brid.gy that are also not linked back to the original.Here's an example: https://app.heymaven.com/profile/66927
Aral Balkan
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