Bluesky has now clarified it won’t employ the community’s content for training generative AI models. Millions of users submitted data to the platform under the privacy policies in place during the years leading up to today’s announcement, which was prompted by artists and creators’ worries about big-tech platforms utilizing their content for training AI models without permission. Describing its continued dedication to valuing the trust of users, Bluesky stressed that their data stay exclusive.
Bluesky Reassures Users: No AI Training on Your Content
The statement is a direct response to the increasing concerns over the use of AI as well as operation of social media platforms. On the same day that Bluesky announced its stance, X which was previously Twitter, changed their terms of service to allow themselves permission to scrutinise user data for the same AI report and investigation reasons. Bluesky on the other hand calmed its community indicating that they will not use the content gathered in such practices.
Bluesky was most emphatic about user consent and clarified that it will not feed any user-generated data into AI systems. This approach is quite different from the rest of social networks which have been known to pull data from the public domain without the user’s consent to a large extent.
Still, Bluesky’s commitments do not exclude the possibility of the scraped data being gathered by various other actors. It should be noted that although there is no specific robots.txt file on Bluesky that prevents companies such as Google or OpenAI from crawling through the website, the platform is eager to find ways that will achieve privacy protection and user consent.
Liu, the spokesperson of Bluesky, noted that although the platform does not scrape, it has some difficulties since its network is quite open. There is the continued search for ways allowed the users to protect their content from training other unauthorized AI projects without leaving the company open.
Bluesky Expands AI Use While Boosting Moderation Efforts
Bluesky has stated that recently the company has explained that it employs AI in content moderation to promote the filtering of the undesirable content as well as help the moderators. The AI helps, rating the posts, so it becomes easier to find posts containing any form of improper or potentially dangerous content. But Bluesky was keen to clarify that these AI tools are not trained on user data in any way.
Besides moderation, Discover feed implemented by Bluesky company applies artificial intelligence for improving user’s experience. This is an algorithmic feed that mainly sorts the contents to fit the users’ interests they are likely to view. The company was keen to make the point that these AI systems do not use data from the users for the purpose of training thereby being compliant with its privacy policies.
In the last week alone, Bluesky has added more than three million new users to its platform meaning it is growing fast. Having many people to join the platform has caused a problem of fake accounts as well as spams, scams, and trolling. Bluesky agreed to the issue and stated that it intends to step up moderation to deal with the problem because it has become worse.
To so do, Bluesky will strengthen its moderation personnel to meet the increasing customer demand. Its key priority is to guarantee that a platform is a friendly place for members to stay and do their job since it employs and updates its rules on a regular basis, investing significant funds in content moderation.
It also links users to the platform’s terms of service, and comms_Code which outlines the moderation processes and policies of Bluesky. This is so as to create confidence on the part of the users and the company as it grows with the right attitude towards the users’ health.
Bluesky Hits 17 Million Users as Threads Rapidly Grows
User registrations are growing at a remarkable pace as users seek to find a new kind of social experience at microblogging sites, other than Twitter; Bluesky is in the forefront having garnered 17 million users. This increase in growth shows the rising trend of moving away from X (formerly Twitter), where users are looking for such platforms that share their idealogy, specifically, the stand of concerning privacy and moderation.
Thankfully, Meta’s Threads has not been inactive in light of Bluesky’s triumph. Threads, which has been on the rise, passed fifteen million sign ups this month along. Threads has expanded quickly, because there is an obvious need for new and different microblogging services among users.
Meta is also exploring the introduction of custom feeds, which Bluesky has in its arsenal and which it is famous for. Custom feeds enables users to filter the type of content taken and thus enhances the quality of content in user news feeds, which is characteristic thatposition Bluesky in the marketplace that full of social media apps.
However, Meta stated earlier that this year that it uses most content posted by users as training material for AI since 2007. This revelation contrasts vividly with the position taken by Bluesky which has always been very keen to state it will not employ user content to train generative AI models.
It was clarified in a recent correction that ‘Bluesky does not use user data for AI training, except for deleting it after a user uses its service, and this was said after X’s new terms of service were implemented. These new terms provide X with more control over the data users provide them with, making it even more apparent there major conflicts regarding privacy within the social media scene.
