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Bluesky To Sell Your Content To AI Data Miners So it begins. Hidden in Jay Graber's recent charm offensive is this innocuously framed initiative: Bluesky is weighing a proposal that gives users consent over how their data is used for AI (https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/10/bluesky-is-weighing-a-proposal-that-gives-users-consent-over-how-their-data-is-used-for-ai/) Not so fast. 1) Shows they are planning on doing content deals with AI companies. 2) Seems like it is Opt-out vs. Opt-in (see below). 3) It is just a voluntary robots.txt file h/t @Lydie@tech.lgbt https://tech.lgbt/@Lydie/114149023344861046 more... #Bluesky
  • Master@lemm.eeEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    Welp this was pretty obvious path and expected. They are better than twitter but still not a good alternative.

  • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
    8·
    17 hours ago

    Headline sounds like FOSS bro cope. They’re talking about letting users choose to have a robots.txt denying AI dataset scrapers lol.

    Not like other sites do a good job of preventing it anyway. robots.txt is not worth the metaphorical paper it’s written on.