Your posts on Bluesky won't be used to train generative AI

Bluesky has become a home for almost 19 million users, with over 3 million users joining in the past week alone. As people are seeking alternatives to X (previously, Twitter) given the recent events like the election and the policy changes, Bluesky along with Threads and Mastodon has become an attractive option. If you, too, are thinking about migrating to Bluesky, there's another reason you might consider doing so.

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The company recently released a statement that they "do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so."

This is in contrast to X's policy for analyzing user text and other information to train its generative AI.

Bluesky goes on to mention that they still use AI on the platform for tasks like content moderation. However, it's not generative AI and neither is it trained in any way on user content.

While this is good news, it isn't the end of it. As The Verge points out, Bluesky not using your data to train their AI does not mean your data on the platform is safe from AI training. Other companies can still use the content you post on Bluesky for AI training. Bluesky is an open social network where your profiles, and all your content, are public. Since Bluesky's robots.txt file doesn't exclude crawlers from Google, OpenAI, and others, this means the data can be crawled by them, much like other websites on the internet.

It must be noted that crawlers don't always respect robots.txt files. However, Bluesky does say that they would still like to protect their users' data and are working on implementing a solution for the same.

Meanwhile, if you want to get to know the new platform better, you can check their terms of service and other documents as linked by the company.