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.

  • ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I write a book that gets published. I still hold copyright over it even if it is in someone else’s bookshelf. What rights the copyright holder and the person has is regulated by law. For example a physical book can be resold or lent to someone else, but it is not allowed to copy it and sell the copies.

    I can cite text from the boom, that falls under fair use but I cannot use whole chapters in a derived work.

    I still hold copyright over my messages online, even when it is public or published, that is basic copyright law in most relevant legislations. If the training of an LLM and later selling access to the LLM with copyright infringed data is fair use is yet to be determined.

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      There is no copyright on publicly posted messages.

      Edit none that is durable

      • ShortN0te@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        Sure there is, most messages are probably too short but in general yes. There is no difference to an online article.

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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          6 months ago

          There is no evidence you have any durable rights to your comments on Lemmy. It’s hosted on someone else’s machine and they have complete control.