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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.

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[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 54 points 9 months ago (5 children)

People can complain, but the Fediverse is built to make consuming user’s data easy. If you don’t want AI using your data, don’t put it on such an easily “scrapable” network.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 64 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, and girls dress for rape. They are just aaasking for it!

I will go off on a tangent.

Just because something is online it does not mean I give a full green light on anything.

Fuck this noise of social parasitic networks hammering free service therefore pay with data into everyone's skull. And everyone posts crap.

It is a billion dollar business. LLMs are extracting millions and will generate more.

You know why? Because worthless shit you post online is not worthless after all.

Yes, you are reading it right. Pay me. Pay us.

Before anyone ridicules this. Yall be defending billion dollar corporations, staffed with millionaires below C-levels.

People should start demanding money from these greedy assholes.

[–] circuscritic@lemmy.ca 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I don't think they're making a moral argument, but pointing out the reality of the situation as it stands.

This is a problem that can only be fixed through legislation and aggressive enforcement backed by large punitive actions.

Until that happens, it's better to acknowledge and understand the reality of the situation, than to believe that a morally righteous condemnation will somehow unmake that reality.

It sucks. I agree with your philosophical stance, except for the payment for personal data, as I'd prefer a complete opt-out. However, none of that changes where we're at right now.

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

A mild copyright violation based on a system designed around the constant distribution of copies of things is NOT a parable about sexual violence, people.

I feel like this extremely insensitive rape take is the fediverse's version of the Godwin Law.

[–] Makeshift@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

ITT people not recognizing that there’s a difference between comparing and equating.

People, it’s possible to make analogies to more serious situations without saying the two things are equal. The statement above is saying it’s there’s a shared mentality, not a shared level of consequence/seriousness.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

You're right but...

It's the same with open source products. Companies just take it, make billions off it, give nothing back, will try the embrace, enhance , extinguish tactics, will hide any GPL licensing because of course they would...

It'll happen anyway, and you can't stop it. Like you said, girls dress to rape is bullshit. But if a girl goes in a skimpy bikini in a Bombay bus at 9pm, then you're kind of asking for something. Open source is open for everyone, that is kind of the point, it's the reason why it became so big in the first place, but it WILL be abused because there are always abusers out there

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Are you seriously co.parong having your shitty Internet comments scrapped by AI to someone actually raping you? Wtf?

[–] bbuez@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Alternatively, use a closed ecosystem susceptible to data rot and loss.

Want to contribute to our open source project? Join our discord

Would you want art to be unfindable because scraping for AI image generation happens? It's a solution looking for problems.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just because our data is accessible doesn’t mean it’s legally licensed to be used by a for profit company. Free doesn’t meant you can do what you want with it, it just means no cost.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don’t disagree. I’m just saying that so long as you’re putting content on this platform, you are powerless to stop any service from using the features of the platform in whatever way they want.

It was built for easy and open consumption of user content by other services.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Oh yeah for sure. Anything I type here is for the whole world to see and I’m okay with that as long as it’s anonymous.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

People can complain, but the Fediverse is built to make consuming user’s data easy

Correction: it is built to make consuming users's data not easy, but more human.

WHat you are thinking of is AP, not "Fediverse", and even then that's a stretch.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Correction: it is built to make consuming users's data not easy, but more human.

What does that even mean?

WHat you are thinking of is AP, not "Fediverse", and even then that's a stretch.

Honestly, I think Fediverse is inseparable from AP (or some similar protocol). You can split hairs if you want, but the thing that makes it different from all other social media services is that it allows the content created by users on one service to be imported into a different service.

You can hope and dream that it is only services like Lemmy consuming user content from services like Mastadon, but this same protocol makes it easy for services like ChatGPT to consume the same data.