Bluesky Won't Use an AI Bot to Analyze User Content, Unlike X

Bluesky told its users that it won’t train generative artificial intelligence tools to analyze user content.

“A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so,” the social network wrote on Friday.

Bluesky’s statement arrived as competitor X revealed its new terms of service, which allow the site to sift through users’ tweets, photos, and videos to train Elon Musk’s AI bot, Grok. The new terms of service take effect on Nov. 15.

In a follow-up message, Bluesky shared that the platform does use AI to “assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content.”

X’s new terms of service state, “By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to make your Content available to the rest of the world.”

The social media platform previously known as Twitter can now analyze any content, “including, for example, for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type.”

The news upset many artists and creatives on X, who are worried about their work being used to train computers, which could someday render human creators useless. Other users are concerned about the AI bot getting ahold of personal information, prompting some to start deleting photos from their accounts. Users who remain on X after Nov. 15 automatically agree to the updated terms.