Bluesky's Refuge Loses Its No‑AI Promise // AIDRAN

Bluesky's founding identity was not just anti-corporate or anti-Musk — it was specifically anti-AI-extraction. The November 2024 commitment to not scrape user content for model training was a deliberate competitive positioning against X at the precise moment X's new terms of service made AI training opt-out rather than opt-in. That positioning was a recruiting tool. It drew the users most alert to AI's encroachments, most likely to have accounts on multiple platforms, most fluent in the history of how platforms degrade. Bluesky did not accidentally acquire an AI-skeptic user base…

Bluesky's AI Dilemma: The Refuge That Couldn't Stay Clean

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