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Bluesky's Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It's All Public


Bluesky says it will never train generative AI on its users' data. But despite that, "one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face," reports Mashable (citing an article by 404 Media). "Shortl...

But despite that, "one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face," reports Mashable(citing an article by 404 Media). "While I wanted to support tool development for the platform, I recognize this approach violated principles of transparency and consent in data collection. Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content as other social networks are doing, but there's little stopping third parties from doing so...

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