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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 #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: app.heymaven.com/profile/66927

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

app.heymaven.comMavenMaven: Follow interests, not influencers