It does use AI to power other parts of the platform, though.
    • RagingRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      That’s my biggest issue with AI. Now all the APIs want me to pay to use them. Originally the API was an incentive to get engineers to build features for their sites without having to pay them. The engineers get data they need to build their thing and the company providing the API gets free product features and user acquisition. It was mostly a fair trade. Now the companies see a few other companies using that data to train API and make a fortune so their reaction is to charge a fortune for the API. Totally disregarding the previous arrangement. If you are an engineer working on something unrelated to AI you are basically shut down from using any APIs that provide useful data. Everything is locked down now when it once was open. It’s so sad. It makes learning more restrictive

      • frunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        But they’ll have stragglers just the same as any major social media site. Even though many here have standards they won’t easily abandon, there are scores of people that won’t even know if/when AI started being used on the site or would care enough to leave if they did.

        Plus every time we leave a platform we need to find or build a new one. The time it takes to get others to migrate and develop into a worthwhile community is hard to predict and it may not even work out. It sucks social media is such shit anymore, but it seems inevitable that it will remain that way given the landscape of the Internet at this point.

        I say this as someone who’s drifted from Fark to Digg to Reddit to Lemmy over the past 20-25 years 🎈 (zero loyalty as well)

  • GiddyGap@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    Bluesky is VC backed. They’ll want to make money down the road, and they’ll definitely train AI soon if not already.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    9 days ago

    Nah, first you gotta get comfortable for a couple of years.

    It’s basically pig butchering for social networks.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        8 days ago

        Yeah, I looked into it and the backend is proprietary, so the central owner can restrict features. Like for instance independent instances can only have 10 users.

        It’s “decentralised” except only in extremely limited scope, the code is centrally controlled and the network remains largely, functionally centralised.

        They’re capitalising on the decentralised, federated buzz while doing it so poorly they’re setting up users to say “oh people tried decentralisation, it doesn’t work, look at Bluesky”.

        If it’s not open source, it’s not decentralised.

  • LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    To be fair, “they” could probably train AI on Lemmy data, they just won’t ask for permission and won’t be charged for it