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November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Very interesting. Yeah in general I assume companies can and are incentivized to train on their customer data unless they explicitly cannot through license or agreement.

The main thing I don’t like is the lack of choice. I want artists to be able to opt out of a 3rd party training
October 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Definitely can all be scraped. And probably are by multiple sources.

The only question I was raising was whether The Hive specifically who they’re feeding all images to is doing it.
October 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Yeah I’m sorry. This definitely escalated beyond my control.
October 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Exactly. Honestly this was a really old post of mine, I think at the time the privacy policy did say they retained that right but I don’t see it any more.

I apologize if I have spread misinformation. I do NOT know whether or not they are using it for training gen ai. I just was worried 2 years ago
October 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Reposted by James Dreben
important note is that while hive does have genai image stuff, it's limited to stock stable diffusion and flux. they are not making new models and are not using bsky images to train them, they're doing software as a service for open source image generators.
October 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I would still like to see something in their policy that says they will not train on customer data. Has anyone seen anything about that?
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
That is really good. I feel terrible if this old post of mine is spreading incorrect information 😥 I will keep looking into this and I guess delete so as to not spread misinformation if so.
October 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
You’re right I can’t either any more. I would note I originally posted this 2 years ago, and the privacy policy was last updated in May of this year.
October 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I don’t disagree per se. The issue I have is primarily if the labeling service they use also trains on those images.
October 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Well said.
October 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I think the reason this post of mine is being revisited is that someone from Bluesky today confirmed they use The Hive for auto labeling images.

So it’s really a question of does Bluesky’s deal with Hive *prevent* The Hive from training on images? Because their normal policy gives them that right
October 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Indeed :(

I hope they remedy this but I am not expecting them to at this time
October 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reposted by James Dreben
You don’t need to become an expert on AT Protocol, you don’t need to learn to code, but I really do want to impress upon people that “federated social media” is a vitally important concept in a time of global authoritarian and technofeudalist consolidation.
October 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Yes I agree with you completely
August 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
You raise good points. You definitely have got me feeling a bit of a smarmy shit and wanting to correct myself.

for what it’s worth, I am willing to change. :( I want Bluesky to succeed in decentralizing. I fear it being bought. it has been easier for me to understand Mastodon’s decentralization
August 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM