Seeing a lot of artists wanting to hop to BlueSky as an alternative to Twitter. So you may want to be made aware that any and all posts to it are fed through 3rd party AI and will be used as training data for image/text generation. A thread.
By itself, this would not be an issue. AI for labeling posts isn’t problematic. However, hive also provides services for generative AI (images, text, video). Which, again, can be easily confirmed on their own website here: https://thehive.ai
Reading their privacy policy, they collect anything submitted and will use it as training data for ALL of their services. In full, here: https://thehive.ai/privacy
Which brings me back to my initial statement. Every post submitted to BlueSky is also submitted to Hive, where it will be used as training data for generative AI.
I’m not against alternatives, but BlueSky ain’t it.
“The problem here is not with robots taking over the world, but with people taking over the world (or at least corrupting large parts of it) by pretending that robots are responsible. In fact people and corporations that decide how robots act.
A spam email from last week - I’ve got a gut feeling it was AI. After claiming to be a lady from Ukraine, it had this bit of culture to share:
I wore a bumblebee costume and took part in an spontaneous dance-off with a busker who was a squirrel. But you know what they say, “without the buzz, there‘s no boogie.”
Libra The sun is in trine with Mercury, and Venus is traversing Ophiuchus, which means the signs are favourable that you will find luck and good fortune if you read the King in Yellow in full at a Drag Story Hour.
Gemini Mars is the planet of blood blood blood IÄ IÄ IÄ Shub-Niggurath blood blood blood blood.
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