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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
It gets dumber (again again)
This isn't even the first time they've tried something like this. Here's a post from months ago where someone notices that "new" Maven has 3-year old posts and they confirmed down in the comments that they imported a bunch of "high quality sources" and set them to different dates to "spark discussion"
@DrakkenZero @bsky.brid.gy I saw that. Shows some of their thinking quite clearly...