Bluesky, the recently rising social media platform, made a remarkable statement stating that user data will not be used for training artificial intelligence systems. This announcement was made on the same day that new terms of service came into force, stipulating that the X platform may process user content for artificial intelligence training purposes.
In the statement made by Bluesky, referring to the concerns of artists and content producers about their data being used for educational purposes, it was stated that the platform does not use user content in this way and does not plan to use it in the future. Despite this, it was also emphasized that Bluesky is an open platform and its data can be scanned by external companies. Spokesperson Emily Liu noted that robots.txt files do not always block such crawling, but added that efforts are being made to ensure that outside companies respect user consent.
Moderation and use of artificial intelligence on Bluesky
Bluesky restricts the use of artificial intelligence to limited areas. The platform announced that artificial intelligence is used in the algorithmic discovery flow and content moderation processes. However, it was specifically stated that these systems do not learn from user content. Instead, moderation processes aim to manage harmful content more effectively.
Growing rapidly in this process, Bluesky gained three million new users in the past week and reached 17 million users in total. However, this growth has brought with it an increase in spam, fraud and troll activities. It was announced that the moderation team was expanded in order to find solutions to these problems.
On the other hand, Meta’s Threads platform continues its growth trend. Threads received 15 million new registrations in November. In addition, it is known that Meta has been training its artificial intelligence models with users’ publicly available data since 2007. This situation causes users who are especially sensitive about privacy to turn to alternative platforms.
These statements by Bluesky will reignite discussions about how social media platforms handle user data. At this point, it is important for users to understand how their data is processed and to carefully examine the privacy policies of the platforms.