Micro-blogging site Bluesky, which recently saw a surge in new users following the US presidential election, has just announced its AI. According to a post on the platform, however, Bluesky confirmed that it will not be training its AI using its users' posts.
This is quite the opposite announcement, as competitor X (formerly Twitter) allows AI to be trained from user posts. Even Meta Threads follow the same practice.
Bluesky's statement coincided with the implementation of X's new terms of service, which states it will provide third parties with access to AI training from its users' posts.
Bluesky states:
“Many artists and creators have made Bluesky their home, and we hear their concerns about other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train artificial intelligence and have no intention of doing so.”
A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so.
However, The Verge reported that Bluesky's robots.txt does not prevent OpenAI, Google and other AI companies from collecting data from the platform.
Bluesky spokeswoman Emily Liu said this is due to Bluesky's open and public nature. He also noted that robots.txt cannot prevent external crawlers, but added that "we will do everything we can to make sure that external organizations respect what users want and that they talk to their team about how they can do that." they do better".
