It does use AI to power other parts of the platform, though.
  • GiddyGap@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    20 hours ago

    Bluesky is VC backed. They’ll want to make money down the road, and they’ll definitely train AI soon if not already.

  • Free_Opinions@feddit.ukEnglish
    114·
    1 day ago

    I’ve yet to hear a good argument for why it matters even if they did. I’ve made thousands of comments on Lemmy that are free for anyone to grab and do anything they want with. If I didn’t want people to have access to them I wouldn’t be posting on the first place.

      • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        33·
        1 day ago

        IMO, they wouldn’t even mention any concept of AI at all, to begin with. They should carry on as they were already going, without bothering to say anything good or bad about AI. If they’re really committed to not involve AI within their platform, they could even create strict community rules regarding AI content and AI usage, limiting or blocking them. As some would say, actions say more than words, because even parrots and crows can speak… Even LLMs can speak!

        • Woovie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          20 hours ago

          okay but they use ai in production for moderation easing and detection, so you didn’t even bother to read why they said this. this whole site is full of fucking stupid presumptuous comments like this because it’s easier to blindly rage.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 day ago

    If the AT protocol allows public access to content, they can’t create a proprietary training set. But the content is available for anyone who wants to add it to a public training set.

  • bloup@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    16·
    1 day ago

    Better BlueSky than Twitter, but I hope everyone understands by now that there’s literally no reason to take a business’s word for anything unless they somehow have legally obligated themselves to doing that thing forever. Otherwise you can only trust them to keep doing it for as long as it’s worth it from an economic perspective. I’m not saying that it can’t ever happen that a business acts out of pure goodwill, but only a fool would count on it.

      • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        19 hours ago

        Money is power, and people with money like to habe power.

        If someone else is pulling in more money, you’re going to find yourself with less power.

        • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          17 hours ago

          These were a couple of PhD geeks who hit it big, it’s certainly not inevitable that intelligent people get absorbed with money, see the creator of VLC for example. It’s just sad that these guys could have been rich AND kept the internet ‘pure’ and research focused. But instead commerce has crept in and taken a shit on what was once a clean simple brilliant search service.

      • Einar@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 day ago

        They want to be rich beyond EVERYONE’S wildest dreams.

        Why else?

      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        When you make a lot of money, the number you see in your account starts to become part of your identity because it differentiates you between you and the people you see every day. The same way if I had blue curly hair, that would become a defining factor of where I “differ” from the general public. The numbers in one’s account becomes an obsession-point.

        People get obsessed with the number and how much bigger they can make it. It’s like hoarding. No amount will ever be enough. And once you’re able to buy anything, the actual value of that money becomes meaningless. So even more drive to bring the number up because that’s the only novelty you are getting.

        That and power.

        • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          When you make a lot of money, the number you see in your account starts to become part of your identity because it differentiates you between you and the people you see every day.

          “Tres Comas is for winners.” (A wonderful line delivery by the huge asshole venture fund bro in Silicon Valley, that illustrates your point)

        • FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 day ago

          Now that I think about it I’m not sure why they had to accept investor money at all. I wonder if it would have turned out differently if they had remained 100% privately owned?

          • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
            4·
            1 day ago

            Because growth… Without the R&D money, Microsoft or Yahoo, or someone else would have figured out how to do what they do faster/better, waited until google was a forgotten name and then enshittified.

      • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        But they’ll have stragglers just the same as any major social media site. Even though many here have standards they won’t easily abandon, there are scores of people that won’t even know if/when AI started being used on the site or would care enough to leave if they did.

        Plus every time we leave a platform we need to find or build a new one. The time it takes to get others to migrate and develop into a worthwhile community is hard to predict and it may not even work out. It sucks social media is such shit anymore, but it seems inevitable that it will remain that way given the landscape of the Internet at this point.

        I say this as someone who’s drifted from Fark to Digg to Reddit to Lemmy over the past 20-25 years 🎈 (zero loyalty as well)

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    512·
    2 days ago

    “Well, WE won’t train on your data. But this subsidiary company we created on the other hand…”