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Discovered this morning that Maven 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 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 pulled in via @bsky.brid.gy that are also not linked back to the original.

Here's an example: app.heymaven.com/profile/66927

1.12 million fediverse posts scraped by AI startup Maven founded by ex OpenAI lead...

confirmation by Maven CTO Jimmy Secretan app.heymaven.com/discover/1190

app.heymaven.comMavenMaven: Follow interests, not influencers

@liaizon this post says that replies federate back. They seem to be an activityPub server. Probably limited like threads.net. but a legit actor, not scraping
app.heymaven.com/discover/9787

app.heymaven.comMavenMaven: Follow interests, not influencers
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@shadowwwind they currently seem to be one way. and they don't link back to the original post, so I would still consider it scraping even if they are using AP to do it...

@liaizon according to him comments do federate back. And the linking thing might just be, that they didn't set that up yet. In the search all mastodon accounts that I saw at least had the whole Webfinger in their name.