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It's a bleak time to be on the Internet. Social media megacorporations have enshittified themselves, and work to exploit, manipulate, and spy on their users. Creators on these sites are subject to the whims of a fickle, inscrutable algorithm, and have to spend hours engaged in useless platform Kremlinology to avoid getting shadowbanned. Floods of AI bots steal any written work or art they can find in order to mass produce cheap imitations, and send any pictures of your face they can find to Big Brother-esque facial recognition mass surveillance dragnets.

We're here to stop that. Welcome to the to-be headquarters of Haven Social.
We're building a video-based social media, very similar to TikTok, but without the malice of today's social media sites. Our platform will:

• Protect users from invasive surveillance like PimEyes and Clearview.AI, the company that famously scraped billions of pictures off of Facebook to use in a facial recognition surveillance system. We do this by modifying all footage of users in a way that makes it indecipherable to facial recognition models.


• Protect artists from having their art stolen by generative AI art models without copyright. Every video and image uploaded to our platform is automatically "poisoned" against AI, with no effort required from you. If an AI ingests the art to use as training material, the AI cannot learn anything from it, or worse, learns wrong. This gives artists the power to enforce their creative rights! If AI art companies respect the artist's wish to not have their art used to train AI, or if they pay the artist for the unpoisoned version, they'll be fine. But if they use the art without the artist's permission, the AI model ingests poison. We’re essentially setting landmines for the AI. Artists are a majorly influential faction online, and we’ll be the best place for them to post.
  Currently, in order to poison your art, you first have to own a expensive graphics card and have the technical know-how to set up the software. Haven will break down this barrier, making it easy and free for anyone to protect their art!


• Protect users from the severe censorship enforced by TikTok and other platforms. I feel such dread for the future when I see words like “unalive”, “s3ggs”, and "Ta!wan". We give a place where people don’t have to worry about being shadowbanned for talking about topics important to them.


• Promote healthy use of social media. Social media companies want you to doomscroll, and they want you to be angry! It makes them more money! But I believe this is dangerous and self-destructive for society. They’re making people pressured and scared and worsening everyone’s mental health to make cash. To prevent this, we're building the best time limit functionality into Haven.
  For the same reason, our algorithm will also promote good content over controversial content. On other platforms, creators will intentionally post enraging, drama-stirring, exaggerated-strawman content because any interaction, even negative interaction, counts as engagement, and more engagement means more algorithmic boost. We prevent this by promoting videos based off the amount of positive engagement with the video, not total engagement. Don’t feed the trolls.


• Provide a honest, transparent recommendation algorithm. Do you want the beloved reverse chronological feed back? You’ll get it with us! Most platforms force their creators to be at the mercy of a fickle, inscrutable, manipulative algorithm. You may already know from experience how this adds a lot more stress and work! It’s frustrating to make good videos and have the algorithm basically shadowban them because you tripped an invisible tripwire! We make our algorithm's inner workings very clear and well-explained, to help creators develop a trusting relationship with us.


• Compensate our creators better than anywhere else, by giving users money when they help us categorize posts or report rule-breaking posts, which they can give directly to their favorite creators. (in addition to normal creator compensation)


• Make it easy to protect all your videos and art at once. Moving lots of content from one site to another can be tedious, so we'll move all your videos, art, and following list over for you!

Learn more about how today's social media megacorporations surveil, manipulate, and exploit their users by reading our CEO's thesis!

We’re going to protect people against the evil of Big Tech megacorporations and surveillance states, but we need your support. Please consider donating to our Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/havensocial/haven-preventing-ai-art-theft-and-surveillance?ref=4wgecc