The Bluesky social network recently published a proposal at Github by describing new options that could give users to show if they want their posts and data to be scraped about things such as a generating training and public archiving.
CEO Jay Gracer discussed the proposal earlier this week while on stage in the south from the southwest, but she drew fresh attention on Friday evening after she posted about her in Bluesky. Some users reacted with alarm to the company’s plans, which they saw as an overthrow of Bluesky’s previous insistence that they would not sell user data to advertisers and will not train it in user posts.
“Oh, hell no!” Wrote the user sketch. “The beauty of this platform was not sharing information. Especially Gen he. Don’t you cave you now. ”
Graber responded that the generating companies are “already removing public data from the entire website”, including Bluesky, as “everything in Bluesky is public as a website is public”. So she said Bluesky is trying to create a “new standard” to govern that scrap, similar to the robots.txt file using websites to communicate their permits for internet trapping.
Debates with regard to him and copyright have attracted the attractive robots to the spotlight, among other things, emphasizing the fact that it is not applicable by law. Bluesky frames his proposed standard as one that would have a “similar mechanism and reception”, providing “a machinery readable from machinery, which good actors are expected to stay, and have ethical weight but are not legally applicable”.
According to the proposal, users of the Bluesky app, or other applications using the basic Atprotocol, can access their settings and allow or not allow their use of Bluesky data in four categories: generating, bridging protocol (ie, by connecting various social ecosystems), Bulk data data, and weading of the website. Internet).
If a user indicates that they do not want their data to be used to train the generating, the proposal says, “Companies and research teams that build training groups he is expected to respect this purpose when they see it, whether they scrap the websites, or by making wholesalers using the protocol itself.”
Molly White, who writes the necessary quote for the newspaper and the web3 is just going a great blog, described this as “a good proposal”, and said it was “strange to see people blazing Bluesky”, as it is not so much “hospitality in he” but rather “attempting to add a signal to the users. happens. ”
“I think the weakness with this and (Creative Commons”) a similar proposal for “preference signals” is that they rely on scrapers to respect these signals from some desire to be good actors, “We continued White.
