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@Lydie

Let's get into this. #Bluesky is bleeding money and selling your data is the best way they have of "monetizing" you. So why not frame it as a "voluntary" initiative?

Thing is, seems like it will be opt-out. See this github 'proposal': https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/tree/main/0008-user-intents

"Suppose a Bluesky user does not want any of their public data to be used for generative AI training. They would go in to app settings, find the data reuse preferences section, and configure “Generative AI” to “disallow”.

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@Lydie

Opt-out vs. Opt-in is a crucial thing. 90% of users never change the default setting.

Oh, and when we dig into the github doc, it is not just AI.

"The initial categories described here include:
generative AI
protocol bridging
bulk datasets
public archiving and preservation"

What are these "bulk datasets" that Bluesky would be selling?

Just more 'distributed' Bluesky trickery. And if you don't like it, Jay Graber says you can "fork off": https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114140940924285320

@Lydie

Let's just try one more thought exercise. Let's say Eugen Rochko told tech media that all content on mastodon.social was going to be sold to AI scapers and "bulk dataset" brokers, but you had the ability to "opt-out" by checking a box that would insert the robots.txt header.

Can you imagine?

And yet, Jay Graber's announcement flies under the radar. This is what happens when you've constructed a cult of personality around your enshittification. Enough of the gaslighting.

@Lydie

In the comments below some defenders of this #Bluesky opt-out AI scraping change say something like, "It just gives users more control over their content." Like it is a good thing. This is baloney.

You don't need to put a sign on your car saying it is not okay to break into this car. It's your car.

This "control of your own data" argument is nonsense. You have control of your own data, it's yours. All you can be tricked into doing is giving it away.