Bluesky, a social network that’s seeing a surge in users this week as users abandon X, says it has “no intention” of using user content to coach generative AI tools. The social network announced on the identical day that X (formerly Twitter) was implementing its recent Terms of Use which enable the platform to make use of public contributions to coach AI.
“Quite a few artists and creatives have joined Bluesky, and we hear their concerns about other platforms using their data,” Bluesky said a contribution on his app. “We don’t use your content to coach generative AI and haven’t any intention of doing so.”
The company further noted that it uses AI internally to assist moderate content and that it also uses the technology in its Discover algorithmic feed. However, Bluesky says, “None of those systems are genetic AI trained on user content.”
Over there with and training our models for machine learning and artificial intelligence, whether generative or otherwise.”
Bluesky saw a surge in users following the US presidential election as X takes a more right-wing approach, particularly after Musk used the platform to campaign for President-elect Donald Trump.
The startup announced on Thursday evening that over 1 million people had signed up for the platform within the last 24 hours. Today it’s like that 17.14 million users on the time of writing.
Despite the surge in users, it's price noting that Meta's Threads remains to be X's biggest competitor, with over 275 million monthly energetic users 15 million recent registrations So far this month.
