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Bluesky has launched an AI assistant called Auntie which allows users to create their own social media algorithms and create brand feeds within companies AT Protocol the environment. And let’s just say that the solution is heated.
Attie began this week at the ATMosphere conference, which Bluesky sponsors. But Bluesky users didn’t get the new update. In fact, nearly 125,000 users have already closed Attie’s Bluesky account, making it the second most closed account on the Internet, according to Open source data. Attie only has 1,500 followers, which means that about 83 times more users have closed the account than followed.
The only account with more blocks than Bluesky’s AI agent is Vice President JD Vance, with about 180,000 blocks – Attie surpassed the White House account (122,000 blocks) and the ICE account (112,460 blocks). It’s another company that hates a platform that interferes with politics.
Bluesky did not respond to a request for comment before publication.
Bluesky has grown its massive footprint — now sitting at 43 million accounts — on behalf of Elon Musk’s X, the platform now. to be sick in neo-Nazim and Made by AI The cost of CSAM. For many Bluesky users, this platform acts as a salvation from the most popular internet, where AI search, AI chatbots, even. AI-generated videos they’re all over the place, which makes Attie’s setup feel like a betrayal.
Some have criticized Bluesky’s approach, noting that the platform still lacks basic features, such as sending photos via DM.
From Bluesky’s point of view, the implementation of these products is not as annoying as it seems.
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Jay Graber, the former CEO of Bluesky who recently changed the role of CIO, wrote in a blog post the company thinks that “AI should serve people, not platforms.”
“Currently, AI is undermining human agency at the same time as enhancing it,” Graber wrote. “The proliferation of low-level AI-generated content is making social media noisy and unreliable at a time when we need accurate information more than ever.
Graber makes the point that, when there is of course bad jobs of AI, the technology itself has many possible applications, and some of them it would be useful to people. Social media is notorious as a useless place to discuss controversial topics. Again, the AI ​​naysayers have good reasons to reject the technology – the the need for more space for AI data and most of the computing power already has it tangible results on the environment as well destroying culture.
With respect to using more AIThe danger that Attie will face is funny. But for Bluesky users, this anger is not so much about Attie itself as it is about what it represents: commitment to the idea that the intrusion of AI into everything is inevitable.
This article has been edited to reflect Bluesky’s relationship with the ATmosphere conference.
