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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 days ago

Can I get that written in a contract?

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 23 points 5 days ago
[–] sircac@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

…at the moment

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 24 points 5 days ago

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

[–] frobscottle_lemmyworld@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee 14 points 6 days ago

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

[–] zquestz@lemm.ee 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

That's my biggest issue with AI. Now all the APIs want me to pay to use them. Originally the API was an incentive to get engineers to build features for their sites without having to pay them. The engineers get data they need to build their thing and the company providing the API gets free product features and user acquisition. It was mostly a fair trade. Now the companies see a few other companies using that data to train API and make a fortune so their reaction is to charge a fortune for the API. Totally disregarding the previous arrangement. If you are an engineer working on something unrelated to AI you are basically shut down from using any APIs that provide useful data. Everything is locked down now when it once was open. It's so sad. It makes learning more restrictive

[–] LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

AI is 100% being trained using Lemmy.

[–] staticsoar@sh.itjust.works 46 points 6 days ago

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

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

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

It's basically pig butchering for social networks.

[–] MaxPow3r11@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They also said it was decentralized which is not true.

I don't believe this.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days 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.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 days 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.

[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 21 points 6 days 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.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] bebabalula@feddit.dk 2 points 5 days ago
[–] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago
[–] Exec@pawb.social 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Well, it will train it's AI on everyone else's posts. Just not your posts.

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days 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.

[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 9 points 6 days ago (1 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.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If I didn't want people to have access to them I wouldn't be posting on the first place.

there's the catch: it's for people. not robots, not billionaires

[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Makes no difference to me.

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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Why is this taking off but not Mastadon?

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] mke@programming.dev 6 points 6 days 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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[–] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 days ago (2 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.

[–] marx2k@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

With bluesky ,the sign up has a section where you choose a server. The bluesky server is prefilled. Otherwise you add your own.

But not having that default option and instead having to have the user go research and figure out which server to use is an immediate turn off.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago

Mastodon has one big, official node, too, though: joinmastodon.com.

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Lol okay. Sounds good, bro.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 7 points 6 days ago

But did they pinky promise?

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

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

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago
[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Who owns this? Another insane rich, right wing techie?

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