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.

  • @GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
    0•20 days ago

    There is no copyright on publicly posted messages.

    Edit none that is durable

    • @ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
      1•20 days ago

      Sure there is, most messages are probably too short but in general yes. There is no difference to an online article.

      • @GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        1•20 days ago

        There is no evidence you have any durable rights to your comments on Lemmy. It’s hosted on someone else’s machine and they have complete control.