Why are users excited?

The problem is with AI, or rather, people don’t like it when their tweets suddenly become the source of training data for Elon Musk’s Grok AI. Bluesky, which has been on the rise since the US elections, said on Friday: will not train productive AI on its users’ postsreports Channel 24 with a link to the official Bluesky page.

This statement stands in stark contrast to the policies of X and even Meta, who may use Threads to train their own Llama AI. It’s probably no coincidence that Bluesky’s announcement comes on the same day that X’s new terms of service go into effect, allowing third-party partners to access the social network’s users’ messages.

Many artists and creators have found a home on Bluesky, and we’re hearing concerns about other platforms training on their data. We do not use your content to train generative AI and have no intention of doing so.
– wrote Bluesky developers.

In the next post, it was clarified in which areas and for what purposes artificial intelligence is used. The company says it’s only involved in moderating content and shaping the Explore flow (like a recommendation that can be added to the flow only if desired).

Bluesky uses artificial intelligence to moderate content; This helps us rank posts and protect human moderators from harmful content. None of these systems are generative AI systems trained on user content.
– says the message.

But not everything is that simple, because in this case it is only about the actual use of user data. Bluesky is a small company without large capital, so no one expected it to announce the development of its own artificial intelligence. However, the site’s usage policy determines what third parties can remove from the platform. OpenAI won’t stop Google and other generative model companies from crawling their data. The company explains this with the open and public nature of the platform.

Emily Liu, a spokesperson for Bluesky, said: “We want to do everything possible to ensure that third-party organizations respect user consent, and we are actively discussing how to achieve this as a team.” Therefore, the company currently relies only on the goodwill of artificial intelligence developers, but it will somehow prevent unauthorized reading of data on the social network.

Bluesky is growing rapidly

Let us remind you that Bluesky has reached a new point in the number of users in the last few days, after one million people registered on the platform in just one day. Later, the company announced the 15 million user threshold. The next day the official page reported that “growth has not slowed down.” That night, November 18, it was announced that the goal had been achieved. 19 million users.

Analytics firm ZirveWeb reported that the increase in Bluesky registrations coincided with an increase in the deactivation of X accounts. The company found that “more than 115,000 U.S. visitors had disabled its pages” on November 7 alone; that number was more than “any previous day during Elon Musk’s tenure.” “.