Bluesky may not train its AI systems on user content like other social networks do, but it is unlikely to prevent third parties from doing so.
According to a report from 404 Media, machine learning librarians at AI company Hugging Face pulled 1 million public posts from Bluesky via the company's Firehose API for machine learning research and pushed the dataset to a public repository. . Controversy has since caused Daniel van Strien to delete the data, but this is a timely reminder that anything you post publicly on Bluesky is publicly available. It functions as a thing.
Bluesky said the company is considering ways to allow users to communicate their consent preferences externally, but it's up to the parties to honor those preferences.
The company posted the following: “Bluesky cannot enforce this consent outside of our systems. It is up to external developers to honor these settings. We are in ongoing discussions with our engineers and legal counsel. We look forward to sharing further updates soon.”
What is clear here is that while Bluesky's popularity is skyrocketing, its rapid rise to the forefront of global consciousness means it will be subject to the same level of scrutiny as other major social platforms. It means.