Julian OliverHow the cookie we knew would crumble, has actually crumbled
Rune Skovbo Johansen@JulianOliver What is the post about AI referred to? I see this one pinned on Aaron's profile. What they said a year ago was that they would not train generative AI, and that seems to still be their stance? If there has been a turnabout, I'd like to understand what it is.
@runevision It seems they are using The Hive, and never gave an opt out, nor heads up.
@JulianOliver Right, but this is not generative AI; it's classification AI. Does them using this contradict something they've said previously?
@JulianOliver I'm not quite sure, but some posts also suggest that Hive is not being trained on Bluesky images; it's only used to classify them. Training an AI on images, and applying an already trained AI on images to classify them are two entirely different things, but the phrasing "feeding images to an AI" obscures this distinction.
It's bad enough that they are submitting users' images to a 3rd party tool for any form of analysis, 'AI' or not, with no forewarning, opt-in, lest of all opt-out.
@JulianOliver That's a fair objection if e.g. Hive is not running on their own servers (I don't know), but it's a very different objection than how the text reads. Accusing someone of going back on their promises is categorically different than having an issue with the choices that someone has made.