Fluffy Developer Fox in Elk: "To anyone thinking about joini..."

To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is sent to a third party for AI labeling.

BlueSky uses AI to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called https://thehive.ai. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they can use content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative AI for both text and images.

Update: https://meow.social/@FluffyDeveloper/110652053858910840

#ai #bluesky

July 3, 2023 at 7:36:25 AM

Darn... even in other socials artists are exposed to AI... the net sucks nowadays :c

yeah :(

Nothing stops people from scraping Mastodon as well, but at least it’s not a built-in function x3

this is what I was wondering - how many AI trainers have simply subscribed to a fediverse endpoint to vacuum up all the posts from everyone.

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At the very least we aren't implicitly consenting to being scraped in some bullshit terms of service (that hopefully wouldn't hold up anyway). That's a pretty sad silver lining, I know...

Really? I was hoping to see artists go there once they open registrations publicly but know I'm not so sure.
With what's happening on Twitter, a lot of artists I followed there are already leaving the platform.

alas yeah, the code is open source so you can check it yourself: https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/blob/main/packages/bsky/src/labeler/hive.ts#L11

I was also curious to try it because of the “choose your own algorithm” function, but finding this out just killed it for me :(

GitHub

atproto/packages/bsky/src/labeler/hive.ts at main · bluesky-social/atproto

Social networking technology created by Bluesky. Contribute to bluesky-social/atproto development by creating an account on GitHub.

Yeah, same. And I hope this spreads up so artists know about it as well.

Hmm, where in the privacy policy is this? I can't immediately find it