Molly White, who writes the Citation Needed newsletter and Web3 is Going Just Great blog, described this as “a good proposal,” and said it was “weird to see people flaming BlueSky for it,” since it’s not so much “welcoming in AI scraping” but rather “trying to add a consent signal to allow users to communicate preferences for the scraping that is already happening.”
That being said, yes, not great
We probably can’t escape Ai everywhere, let’s face it
But most people won’t care like they didn’t care about their data in general before AI
I’m already using Mastodon in parallel, but I must admit I couldn’t find a lot of people to follow…maybe gotta look harder, but I have to admit it doesn’t seem as easy as it does on BS
That being said, yes, not great
We probably can’t escape Ai everywhere, let’s face it But most people won’t care like they didn’t care about their data in general before AI
I’m already using Mastodon in parallel, but I must admit I couldn’t find a lot of people to follow…maybe gotta look harder, but I have to admit it doesn’t seem as easy as it does on BS