Mastodon MigrationMar 12, 2025

Bluesky To Sell Your Content To AI Data Miners

So it begins. Hidden in Jay Graber's recent charm offensive is this innocuously framed initiative: Bluesky is weighing a proposal that gives users consent over how their data is used for AI (https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/bluesky-is-weighing-a-proposal-that-gives-users-consent-over-how-their-data-is-used-for-ai/)

Not so fast.

1) Shows they are planning on doing content deals with AI companies.
2) Seems like it is Opt-out vs. Opt-in (see below).
3) It is just a voluntary robots.txt file

h/t @Lydie https://tech.lgbt/@Lydie/114149023344861046

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Bluesky is weighing a proposal that gives users consent over how their data is used for AI | TechCrunch

Speaking at the SXSW conference in Austin on Monday, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said the social network has been working on a framework for user consent over

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@Lydie

Let's get into this. #Bluesky is bleeding money and selling your data is the best way they have of "monetizing" you. So why not frame it as a "voluntary" initiative?

Thing is, seems like it will be opt-out. See this github 'proposal': https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/tree/main/0008-user-intents

"Suppose a Bluesky user does not want any of their public data to be used for generative AI training. They would go in to app settings, find the data reuse preferences section, and configure “Generative AI” to “disallow”.

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proposals/0008-user-intents at main · bluesky-social/proposals

Bluesky proposal discussions. Contribute to bluesky-social/proposals development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Show threaddogzillaMar 12, 2025
@mastodonmigration @Lydie How would I opt out of having my Mastodon posts used for training AI? Is there even any way to know if someone has set up an instance, followed thousands of people, and is feeding all the posts into an AI?
Show threadHishamMar 13, 2025

@dogzilla @mastodonmigration @Lydie AI companies already do this illegally.

People have already posted screenshots of ChatGPT summarizing the content of other people's fediverse accounts.

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@hisham_hm @dogzilla @Lydie

Of course they do. The issue under discussion is whether the platform gives them the authority to do so or not.

Mar 13, 2025 at 4:07amWeb
Show threadCley FayeMar 13, 2025

@mastodonmigration @hisham_hm @dogzilla @Lydie If we know it is done regardless of the permission to do so, then discussing which platforms allows it or not becomes a bit useless.

Taking a great stance against AI scrapping to no effect and having a deal with AI scrapper leads to the same consequences. We should look into that.

Show threadHishamMar 14, 2025
@mastodonmigration @dogzilla @Lydie Yes, of course. I'm definitely not saying "well, all is lost because they'll scrape your data anyway". Legal accountability is no joke.
Show threaddogzillaMar 14, 2025

@hisham_hm @mastodonmigration @Lydie Well, how many admins or users have a legal department to draw on? In theory that would restrain corporations or hackers, in practice it really doesn’t. It’s probably a line item in the business plan.

So I’m not sure that in practice BlueSky is that different from Masto, at least for this issue. I’m sure there’s plenty of other metrics

For me, I’ll never rely on a centrally-controlled presence again, but I’ll visit