Bluesky dataset for AI training removed from Hugging Face
On 26 November, Daniel van Strien, a machine learning librarian at Hugging Face, uploaded a dataset of 1m public posts and accompanying metadata taken from Bluesky’s firehose API. The dataset card explained it was “intended for machine learning research and experimentation with social media data”.
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Bluesky, the social media platform often seen as a rival to Twitter, is at the center of a controversy after one million of its public posts..|News Track
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Bluesky is facing its first major controversy over data scraping after a dataset containing one million public posts appeared on the AI platform Hugging Face,
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Bluesky’s open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training
Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content as other social networks are doing, but there’s little stopping third-parties from doing so. Per a report by 404 Media, a machine learning librarian at AI firm Hugging Face pulled 1 million public posts from Bluesky via its Firehose API for machine learning research,
Hugging Face’s Dataset Release Exposes 1M Bluesky Posts for Research
A Hugging Face librarian released and later removed a 1 million Bluesky posts dataset, sparking concerns over data transparency and consent. Daniel van
One million public Bluesky posts scraped for AI training
A machine learning librarian scraped public posts and created a searchable AI training dataset, without consent of users.
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