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Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

We recently shared Bluesky’s stance on user data and AI training, which has not changed. Bluesky will not train generative AI on user data. bsky.app/profile/bsky...

Bluesky is an open and public social network, much like websites on the Internet itself. Websites can specify whether they consent to outside companies crawling their data with a robots.txt file, and we’re investigating a similar practice here.

For example, this might look like a setting that allows Bluesky users to specify whether they consent to outside developers using their content in AI training datasets Bluesky won’t be able to enforce this consent outside of our systems. It will be up to outside developers to respect these settings

We’re having ongoing conversations with engineers & lawyers and we hope to have more updates to share on this shortly!

Aren't there better things to spend engineer and legal hours on, than legitimizing a manufactured moral panic? Like actually encrypting DMs or fixing the regular netsplits between the PDSs?

I hate to break it to you, but lawyers are not going to be particularly useful on either of those projects