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[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Oh it will as soon as the investors demand more ReTurN oN iNvEsTmEnT.

[–] errer 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Then we leave that platform too. I have zero loyalty. Zero.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I only have it because my family chose that over Mastodon. Mastodon is better.

[–] frunch 6 points 1 month ago

But they'll have stragglers just the same as any major social media site. Even though many here have standards they won't easily abandon, there are scores of people that won't even know if/when AI started being used on the site or would care enough to leave if they did.

Plus every time we leave a platform we need to find or build a new one. The time it takes to get others to migrate and develop into a worthwhile community is hard to predict and it may not even work out. It sucks social media is such shit anymore, but it seems inevitable that it will remain that way given the landscape of the Internet at this point.

I say this as someone who's drifted from Fark to Digg to Reddit to Lemmy over the past 20-25 years 🎈 (zero loyalty as well)

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Well, WE won't train on your data. But this subsidiary company we created on the other hand..."

[–] Badeendje 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or one of our 12675 carefully selected partners

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

Won't train AI on your posts ~~until we reach critical mass of users~~.

[–] frobscottle_lemmyworld 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

"Bluesky has not been offered enough money to scrape user data for AI"

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds exactly like something that someone intending to train an AI would say.

[–] ripcord 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does it?

OK, what would they say if they weren't planning on it?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

BlueskAI on the other hand...

[–] AbouBenAdhem 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If the AT protocol allows public access to content, they can’t create a proprietary training set. But the content is available for anyone who wants to add it to a public training set.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I remember when Reddit promised similar things...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago
[–] LegoBrickOnFire 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

To be fair, "they" could probably train AI on Lemmy data, they just won't ask for permission and won't be charged for it

[–] TheGrandNagus 6 points 1 month ago

AI is 100% being trained using Lemmy.

[–] MaxPow3r11 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They also said it was decentralized which is not true.

I don't believe this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

well there's a protocol but everyone is on the main one, i don't think theres even a non personal instance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I looked into it and the backend is proprietary, so the central owner can restrict features. Like for instance independent instances can only have 10 users.

It's "decentralised" except only in extremely limited scope, the code is centrally controlled and the network remains largely, functionally centralised.

They're capitalising on the decentralised, federated buzz while doing it so poorly they're setting up users to say "oh people tried decentralisation, it doesn't work, look at Bluesky".

If it's not open source, it's not decentralised.

[–] sircac 22 points 1 month ago

…at the moment

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bluesky is VC backed. They'll want to make money down the road, and they'll definitely train AI soon if not already.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Maybe the VC's are dying soon and they wanted to do something useful with their exorbitant wealth before they die

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

Trust me bro, just keep shit posing on here, we won't change out "ToS"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Can I get that written in a contract?

[–] recapitated 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's open to the public. So, many other orgs are certainly doing it anyway.

[–] marx2k 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The same can be said of lemmy, mastodon or any publically accessible forum

[–] recapitated 7 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. I worked somewhere where we routinely had alarms go off due to botnets swarming us with weird (and obnoxious) massive download tactics (of publicly available user generated content, that is).

If it can be gotten by anyone, it will be gotten by LLM trainers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Better BlueSky than Twitter, but I hope everyone understands by now that there’s literally no reason to take a business’s word for anything unless they somehow have legally obligated themselves to doing that thing forever. Otherwise you can only trust them to keep doing it for as long as it’s worth it from an economic perspective. I’m not saying that it can’t ever happen that a business acts out of pure goodwill, but only a fool would count on it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The API is so cheap someone is going to do it anyways...

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[–] werefreeatlast 15 points 1 month ago

Nah, first you gotta get comfortable for a couple of years.

It's basically pig butchering for social networks.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (14 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

"Don't be evil" ...

... for now

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I've yet to hear a good argument for why it matters even if they did. I've made thousands of comments on Lemmy that are free for anyone to grab and do anything they want with. If I didn't want people to have access to them I wouldn't be posting on the first place.

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[–] eran_morad 8 points 1 month ago

Lol okay. Sounds good, bro.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

But did they pinky promise?

[–] NeilBru 7 points 1 month ago
[–] daggermoon 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why is this taking off but not Mastadon?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's easier to use and has a recommendation algorithm.

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[–] Evotech 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which marketing and better how, exactly?

Can anyone please point me an example of Bluesky marketing that isn't word of mouth or large-event headlines on the news?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Barrier of entry is marginally lower. With mastodon you'll have to make a decision on what instance you're creating your account. With Bluesky there's just Bluesky.

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[–] obinice 6 points 1 month ago

Why not? Are my posts not good enough for you Mr Bluesky?

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