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.

  • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Instead, when a user posts something, the algorithm automatically reads the content and tags it with relevant interests so it shows up on those pages.

    Motherfucker this is what hashtags are for.