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The suddenly hot Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts
Bluesky, which has surged after the US election, announced on Friday that it won’t train generative AI on users’ posts. Bluesky’s announcement coincided with X’s new terms of service that enable just that.
Probably not coincidentally, Bluesky’s announcement came the same day X’s new terms of service, allowing third-party partners to train on user posts, went into effect. The Verge points out that Bluesky’s robots.txt (the policy that dictates what outside parties can scrape from a website) doesn’t prevent OpenAI, Google or other leading GenAI companies from crawling its data. “Just as robots.txt files don’t always prevent outside companies from crawling those sites, the same applies here,” spokesperson Emily Liu told The Verge.
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