X rival Bluesky says it won't train AI on user posts

Bluesky, an uprising alternative to Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter), has said it will not train its artificial intelligence models on posts of its users, leing debate in favour of ethical use of generative AI. announcement also contrasts AI training policies of X and Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, which has openly mitted to feeding its models data of user posts.

"A number of artists and creators have me ir home on Bluesky, and we hear ir concerns with or platforms training on ir data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so," said Bluesky in a post on its platform, which saw a steep surge in its user base, mostly X users who decided to leave Musk's platform after Donald Trump won US Presidential Election.

decentralised social media platform, backed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, said it uses AI internally "to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. Bluesky ded it uses AI in algorithms to power Discover feed. "None of se are Gen AI systems trained on user content," it said in a follow-up post.

However, data posted on Bluesky's platform is up for grabs for AI companies, such as OpenAI and Google. According to Verge, decentralised platform's robot.txt, its policy that informs third parties what to scrape from its website, does not stop Gen AI companies from extracting data. "Just as robots.txt files don't always prevent outside companies from crawling those sites, same applies here," Bluesky spokesperson Emily Liu was quoted as saying in a report by Verge. “That said, we’d like to do our part to ensure that outside orgs respect user consent and are actively discussing within team on how to achieve this.”