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[–] Naich@lemmings.world 77 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Well, WE won't train on your data. But this subsidiary company we created on the other hand..."

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or one of our 12675 carefully selected partners

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

* lube can be removed without prior notice

[–] staticsoar@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 week ago

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

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds exactly like something that someone intending to train an AI would say.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does it?

OK, what would they say if they weren't planning on it?

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IMO, they wouldn't even mention any concept of AI at all, to begin with. They should carry on as they were already going, without bothering to say anything good or bad about AI. If they're really committed to not involve AI within their platform, they could even create strict community rules regarding AI content and AI usage, limiting or blocking them. As some would say, actions say more than words, because even parrots and crows can speak... Even LLMs can speak!

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[–] Davel23@fedia.io 33 points 1 week ago

BlueskAI on the other hand...

[–] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If the AT protocol allows public access to content, they can’t create a proprietary training set. But the content is available for anyone who wants to add it to a public training set.

[–] Exec@pawb.social 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

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

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 20 points 1 week ago

Trust me bro, just keep shit posing on here, we won't change out "ToS"

[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Better BlueSky than Twitter, but I hope everyone understands by now that there’s literally no reason to take a business’s word for anything unless they somehow have legally obligated themselves to doing that thing forever. Otherwise you can only trust them to keep doing it for as long as it’s worth it from an economic perspective. I’m not saying that it can’t ever happen that a business acts out of pure goodwill, but only a fool would count on it.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

"Don't be evil" ...

... for now

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I don't get it. They were rich beyond most people's wildest dreams. Why did they jump aboard the enshitification bandwagon?

[–] original_reader@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

They want to be rich beyond EVERYONE'S wildest dreams.

Why else?

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Public trading... it's capitalism. By law you have to try and extort every penny.

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now that I think about it I'm not sure why they had to accept investor money at all. I wonder if it would have turned out differently if they had remained 100% privately owned?

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Because growth... Without the R&D money, Microsoft or Yahoo, or someone else would have figured out how to do what they do faster/better, waited until google was a forgotten name and then enshittified.

[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When you make a lot of money, the number you see in your account starts to become part of your identity because it differentiates you between you and the people you see every day. The same way if I had blue curly hair, that would become a defining factor of where I “differ” from the general public. The numbers in one’s account becomes an obsession-point.

People get obsessed with the number and how much bigger they can make it. It’s like hoarding. No amount will ever be enough. And once you’re able to buy anything, the actual value of that money becomes meaningless. So even more drive to bring the number up because that’s the only novelty you are getting.

That and power.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

When you make a lot of money, the number you see in your account starts to become part of your identity because it differentiates you between you and the people you see every day.

"Tres Comas is for winners." (A wonderful line delivery by the huge asshole venture fund bro in Silicon Valley, that illustrates your point)

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago
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[–] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago (4 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.

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Lol okay. Sounds good, bro.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 7 points 1 week ago

But did they pinky promise?

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Why is this taking off but not Mastadon?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[–] obinice@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

... for now

[–] residentmarchant@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This seems like a clever way of saying they don't have an AI team or plans so they have no use for the data.

Brilliant!

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago
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