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One Million Bluesky Posts Scraped and Uploaded for AI Use Now

Evelyn Blake
Last updated: 27 November 2024 20:29
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The rising decentralized social media platform, Bluesky, is scrambling with its first big AI data scrape. One million public posts were eventually crawled and uploaded to help train generative AI, despite its creators’ assurances that the platform would not participate in training generative AI. Hosted on Hugging Face, this dataset was created by machine learning librarian Daniel van Strien.

Furthermore, Bluesky included text content, metadata, information about media attachments, and even decentralized identifiers (DIDs) for Bluesky users. It was described explicitly to be used for natural language processing, social media trend analysis, and content moderation experiments.

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Bluesky’s Open API Raises Questions

The public posts are available through Bluesky’s open firehose API and Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol. Real-time updates such as posts, likes, follows, and many more are streamed to you through the Firehose API. This openness provides a great opportunity for new ideas, but it also presents moral issues regarding how your user data is collected and utilized.

Bluesky users did not agree to having their posts used for machine learning. Nevertheless, the platform does not forbid actions of this kind. This issue brings forward the issue of a critical gap in user data protection and the risk of decentralized platforms.

Public Outcry and Data Removal

Once Bluesky made the dataset public, it stirred up controversy with Bluesky users and privacy advocates who criticized that the dataset lacked transparency and consent. Hugging Face has removed the dataset in response.

Daniel Van Strien apologized for the ethical lapse in a public statement. In a statement, he said that he was motivated to support platform tool development, but his approach broke principles of transparency and consent in data collection. But he was sorry for this mistake.

Bluesky’s Response

The controversy was met by a Bluesky representative who focused on the public and decentralized nature of the platform. They compared their situation to websites and their robots.txt files, which don’t always work to prevent web crawling.

There was a need to provide mechanisms for users to have control over what data was used by unaffiliated third parties. Safeguards are being discussed around starting the code such that the developers will ensure they respect the users’ preferences.

Implications for Bluesky Users

This is a dark warning for Bluesky’s expanding user base. Users simply moved to the platform to avoid competitor X’s shocking AI training policies. The controversy shows the fragile condition of balance between openness and privacy in decentralized networks.

Bluesky’s decentralized structure has the benefit of transparency and collaboration while being less forgiving than centralized systems when it comes to user privacy risks. The way the company is trying to address these issues will surely affect the long-term growth and trust of the company from the users.

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End Note

As good as the removal of this dataset is, it confirms the need for ethical rules on all decentralized platforms. To protect its ethics in social networking, Bluesky must give user consent and transparency precedence.

It is a reminder of the challenges faced by platforms striving to reconcile innovation with user rights. Bluesky’s path forward is to respond to these gaps by bringing them up proactively and building trust with its users.

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Evelyn Blake
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Evelyn Blake is an investor in technology and journalist who has been in the nascent space since 2014. Her love and passion for technological innovations made her delve deeper into the world of technology evolution. As a journalist, Evelyn has been covering latest trends and emerging gadgetries. She is a philanthropist and human rights activist.

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