Bluesky has It rose in the days following the US electionshe said on friday habit Get trained on its users’ posts for productive AI. The statement stands in stark contrast to the AI ​​education policies of X (Twitter) and Meta’s Threads. Probably not a coincidence, Bluesky’s announcement came on the same day X’s new terms of serviceThe application, which allows third-party business partners to receive training on user posts, has come into effect.

“Many artists and creators have settled on Bluesky, and we’re hearing concerns about other platforms training on their data,” Bluesky said. sent (through threshold) on Friday. “We do not use any of your content to train generative AI and have no intention of doing so.”

In a follow-up post, the decentralized social platform clarified that it uses artificial intelligence to help moderate content. “Bluesky uses artificial intelligence internally to assist with content moderation, which helps us prioritize posts and protect human moderators from harmful content,” the company said. Bluesky also added that it uses artificial intelligence in the algorithms that power the Discover flow.

“None of these are Next Generation AI systems trained on user content,” Bluesky emphasized.

threshold It states that Bluesky does not block robots.txt (the policy that determines what outside parties can retrieve from a website) OpenAI, Google or from scanning data from other leading GenAI companies. The company justified this potential gap by pointing to the open and public nature of the platform. “Just like robots.txt files don’t always prevent outside companies from crawling these sites, the same is true here,” spokeswoman Emily Liu said. threshold. “However, we want to do our part to ensure that external organizations respect user consent and that there is active discussion within the team on how to achieve this.”

Although Bluesky is still the underdog in the race with X and Threads, the platform took off steam After the US elections. It crossed the 15 million user threshold on Wednesday after adding more than a million users last week.

A. report web analytics company ZirveWeb noted that the sign-up increase coincided with an increase in X deactivations. It found that on November 7, “more than 115,000 US web visitors (X) deactivated their accounts,” a number that was “more than any previous day of Elon Musk’s tenure.” In parallel, “Bluesky’s web traffic and daily active users increased significantly in the week before the election and also after election day.”