It does use AI to power other parts of the platform, though.
      • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 months 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)

    • kubica@fedia.io
      1·
      8 months ago

      Until 2 people ask for it, and then they say they received a lot of requests so they had to do it.

  • GiddyGap@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

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

      • Einar@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

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

        Why else?

      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        8 months 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.

      • Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        01·
        8 months 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!

  • bloup@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    8 months 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 be committed 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 I would never count on it.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 months 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.