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Bluesky has launched an AI assistant called Auntie It allows users to design their own social media algorithms and create custom feeds in-house AT protocol Ecosystem. And let’s just say the response was hot.
Bluesky’s user base, which leans towards artificial intelligence, has not embraced the new product, which has debuted This weekend In the company’s atmosphere conference. Instead, about 125,000 users have already blocked Attie’s Bluesky account, making it the second most banned account on the network, according to Open source data. Attie only has 1,500 followers, which means there are about 83 times more users who have blocked the account than he has followers.
The only account with more blocks than Bluesky AI client is Vice President JD Vance, with about 180,000 blocks – Attie even surpassed the White House account (122,000 blocks) and the ICE account (112,460 blocks). This is a highly disliked company for a platform that skews left politically.
Bluesky did not respond to a request for comment before publication.
Bluesky built much of its user base — which now stands at 43 million accounts — as an alternative to Elon Musk’s overhaul of Twitter to X, which is now a platform afflicted by Neo-Nazism and Created by artificial intelligence CSAM. For many Bluesky users, the platform is a break from the more mainstream social web, with AI searches, AI chatbots, and even… AI-generated video feeds They are everywhere, making Attie’s firing seem like a betrayal.
Others criticized Bluesky’s product priorities, noting that the platform was still missing much-needed basic features, such as sending photos via direct messages.
From Bluesky’s perspective, this product launch isn’t as insulting as it sounds.
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Jay Graber, former CEO of Bluesky who recently moved to CIO, wrote in an article Blog post The company believes that “AI should serve people, not platforms.”
“Currently, AI undermines and simultaneously enhances human capacity,” Graeber wrote. “The proliferation of low-quality content generated by AI is making public social networks noisier and less trustworthy at a time when we need accurate information more than ever. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find the exact signal when it matters most.”
Graber points out that while there is definitely Evil uses As for artificial intelligence, the technology itself has a wide range of potential applications, some of which… It may be useful For humanity. Social media is notoriously a poor place to have nuanced discussions about emotionally charged topics. And again, AI naysayers have legitimate reasons to boycott the technology Demand for more AI data centers More computing power already exists Tangible effects On the environment while also Erosion of culture.
compared to Most offensive uses of artificial intelligenceThe potential danger to Atty is laughable. But for Bluesky users, this anger is less about Attie himself and more about what he symbolizes: resignation to the idea that AI encroachment on everything is inevitable.