A so-called "AI-powered social network start-up" has started cloning posts from across the Fediverse without asking permission. You can find out more in this discussion thread:
A so-called "AI-powered social network start-up" has started cloning posts from across the Fediverse without asking permission. You can find out more in this discussion thread:
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.
Are we sure Maven is an ActivityPub service? If not there's no particular reason to believe that their app federates in the first place. The CTO has talked about being able to reply across services, so there may be a bridge involved, but there's a lot of ambiguity as of right now. Preemptively defederating is probably a good idea, but I doubt it's sufficient to prevent the sort of scraping they were doing. An HTTP-level block is probably a better defense at this point.
L. Rhodes
in reply to Grow Your Own Services 🌱 • • •Fribygdas Natteravn :fribygda:
in reply to Grow Your Own Services 🌱 • • •@mastohost
Is authorized fetch enabled on Masto.Host servers?
Masto.host
in reply to Fribygdas Natteravn :fribygda: • • •@fribygda You can enable it in the Mastodon administration.
Administration->Server Settings->Discovery by enabling 'Require authentication from federated servers'.
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