Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content like the other social networks are, but there is little preventing third parties from doing so.

According to 404 Media, Daniel van Strien, a machine learning librarian at AI firm Hugging Face, downloaded 1 million public posts from Bluesky via its Firehose API for machine learning research, which sent the dataset to a public repository. Van Strien subsequently deleted the data following the controversy that erupted; however, it is a timely reminder that everything you post publicly to Bluesky is, well, public.

Bluesky said that it is looking into ways to enable users to communicate their consent preferences externally, but it's up to those parties whether they respect those preferences.

The company posted: "Bluesky won't be able to enforce this consent outside of our systems. It will be up to outside developers to respect these settings. We're having ongoing conversations with engineers & lawyers and we hope to have more updates to share on this shortly!"

What is obvious here is the fact that while Bluesky is on the rise, the fact that it has been receiving such phenomenal acceptance would mean it's open to the same stringent scrutiny that all mainstream social platforms face.