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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

Screenshot of a social network Maven with my account from the fediverse copied into it.
Screenshot of a social network Maven with my account from Bluesky copied into it.
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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

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UPDATE: Looks like its a bit more complex (isn't it always)
So the CTO is here at @jsecretan and has clarified that they are in the process of implementing bidirectional , but in the meantime ingested the "federated timeline" of Mastodon.social
You can look at their AP response here: staging.maven.ly/mastodon/acto though it doesn't seem to be live on their main domain.

screenshot of the CTO talking to himself between Maven and Mastodon.social (as viewed on my instance through Phanpy)
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UPDATE 2: so it looks like @jsecretan is deleting the entire 1.12 million scraped posts off of Maven after this thread blew up. So cool I guess? But also sorta totally comes off as "whoopsies" we had no idea what would happen if you scrape millions of posts with no link back to the original. I hope to see an official post mortum on this incident from Maven

a screenshot of the CTO saying they are deleting the whole "ingest"
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UPDATE 3: CTO Jimmy (@jsecretan) says "We have paused everything related to our Fediverse ingestion for now and we are removing everything ingested. To be honest, the extreme negative reaction was a surprise to me, as I thought interaction between disparate systems was the entire point, but clearly we didn't navigate the culture correctly." - app.heymaven.com/discover/1190

And @deadsuperhero wrote an article mostly from this thread for @wedistribute.org now live at wedistribute.org/2024/06/maven

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