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Bluesky has launched an AI assistant called Attie that allows users to design their own social media algorithms and create custom feeds within the company’s AT Protocol ecosystem. And let’s just say the response was hot.
Attie made his debut this weekend at the ATmosphere conference, sponsored by Bluesky. But Bluesky’s user base hasn’t embraced the new product. 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 developed much of its user base — which now stands at 43 million accounts — as an alternative to Elon Musk’s X, a platform now plagued by neo-Nazism and AI-induced CSAM. For many Bluesky users, the platform is a break from the more mainstream social web, where AI search, AI-powered chatbots and even AI-generated video feeds are available everywhere, making Attie’s launch 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, Bluesky’s former CEO who recently moved to CTO, wrote in a blog post that the company believes “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.”
Graeber points out that while there are sinister uses for AI, the technology itself has a wide range of potential applications, some of which may be beneficial to humanity. Social media is notoriously a poor place to have nuanced discussions about emotionally charged topics. But again, AI naysayers have legitimate reasons to boycott the technology — the demand for more AI data centers and more computing power is already having tangible impacts on the environment while also eroding culture.
Compared to the most offensive uses of AI, the potential danger of ATTI 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.
This story has been edited to reflect Bluesky’s relationship with the Atmosphere Conference.
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