Bluesky’s It rose in the days after the US electionhe said on Friday won’t do train on users’ posts for generative AI. The statement is in stark contrast to the AI training policies of X (Twitter) and Meta Threads. Perhaps not coincidentally, Bluesky’s announcement came on the same day X’s new terms of servicewent into effect allowing third-party partners to provide training on user posts.
“A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns about their data on other platforms,” Bluesky said. placed (through The Verge) on Friday. “We do not use any of your content to develop generative artificial intelligence, nor do we intend to.”
A decentralized social platform in the next post clarified uses AI to help moderate content. “Bluesky uses artificial intelligence internally to help with content moderation, which helps us segregate posts and protect human moderators from harmful content,” the company said. Bluesky also added that Discover uses artificial intelligence in the algorithms that power its feed.
“None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content,” Bluesky said.
The Verge Bluesky notes that robots.txt (the policy that dictates what external parties can delete from a website) does not interfere. OpenAI, Google or prevent other leading GenAI companies from crawling their data. The company justified this potential pitfall by pointing to the open and public nature of the platform. “Just as robots.txt files don’t always prevent third parties from crawling those sites, the same is true here,” said spokeswoman Emily Liu. The Verge. “In this regard, we would like to do our part to ensure that third party organizations respect user consent and actively discuss within the team how to achieve this.”
Although Bluesky is still weak in the race with X and Threads, the platform is there picked up steam After the US election. After adding more than a million users last week, it crossed the 15 million user mark on Wednesday.
A report SimilarWeb, a web analytics company, noted that the increase in registrations coincided with an increase in X deactivations. It found that “more than 115,000 US web visitors have disabled their websites [X] accounts” on Nov. 7, “more than any previous day during Elon Musk’s tenure.” In parallel, “web traffic and daily active users for Blusky increased dramatically in the week leading up to the election and again after Election Day.”
