Bluesky's Newest Product: an AI Tool That Gives You Custom Feeds (attie.ai)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/29/1832200/blueskys-newest-product-an-ai-tool-that-gives-you-custom-feeds
- Source link: https://attie.ai/login
Called "Attie" — because it's built with Bluesky's decentralized publishing framework, AT Protocol (which is open source) — the new assistant turns natural language prompts into social feeds, without users having to know how to code. (It's part of Bluesky's mission to "develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.")
[3]Engadget reports :
> On the Attie website, examples include prompts like, "Show me electronic music and experimental sound from people in my network" or "Builders working on agent infrastructure and open protocol design."
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> "It feels more like having a conversation than configuring software," [writes Bluesky's [4]former CEO/current chief innovation officer, Jay Graber , in [5]a blog post. "You describe the sort of posts you want to see, and the coding agent builds the feed you described."
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> Graber added that Attie is a separate app from Bluesky and users don't have to use the new AI assistant if they don't want to. However, since Attie and Bluesky were built on the same framework, it could mean there will be some cross-app implementation between the two or any other app built on the AT Protocol.
"Attie is [6]open for beta signups today , and we'll be sharing what we learn along the way," Graber [7]writes in the blog post . "To learn more about Attie, visit: [8]Attie.AI . Come help us find out what this can be."
The blog post warns that "Right now, AI is undermining human agency at the same time it's enhancing it," since "The proliferation of low-quality AI-generated content is making public social networks noisier and less trustworthy..." And in a world where "signal is getting harder to find... The major platforms aren't trying to fix this problem."
> They're using AI to increase the time users spend on-platform, to harvest training data, and to shape what users see and believe through systems they can't inspect and didn't choose. We think AI should serve people, not platforms...
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> An open protocol puts this power directly in users' hands. You can use it to build your own feeds, create software that works the way you want it to, and find signal in the noise. We built the AT Protocol so anyone could build any app they imagine on top of it, but until recently "anyone" really meant "anyone who can code." Agentic coding tools change that. For the first time, an open protocol can be genuinely open to everyone...
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> The Atmosphere [Bluesky's interoperable ecosystem] is an open data layer with a clearly defined schema for applications, which makes it uniquely well-suited for coding agents to build on... Bluesky will continue to evolve as a social app millions of people rely on. Attie will be where we experiment with agentic social.
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> AI is an accelerant on whatever it's applied to. I want it to accelerate decentralizing social and putting power back in users' hands. But I don't think the most interesting things built on AT Protocol will come from us. They're going to come from everyone who picks up these tools and starts building.
[1] https://theliquidfrontier.leaflet.pub/3mi5pwkoqx22g
[2] https://attie.ai/login
[3] https://www.engadget.com/ai/blueskys-next-product-is-an-ai-assistant-that-helps-build-custom-social-media-feeds-163140902.html
[4] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/09/1919227/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-stepping-down
[5] https://theliquidfrontier.leaflet.pub/3mi5pwkoqx22g
[6] https://attie.ai/login
[7] https://theliquidfrontier.leaflet.pub/3mi5pwkoqx22g
[8] https://attie.ai/login
Re:Custom feeds of garbage (Score:4, Insightful)
Oddly enough, the feed and filter system being discussed also allows for an equally echo-y right wing experience, if you desire that. Their may be less right wing voices but they aren't absent and could be filtered for.
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Oddly enough, the feed and filter system being discussed also allows for an equally echo-y right wing experience, if you desire that.
The algorithm might allow for it, but bluesky moderation won't.
Try saying there are 2 genders and that men shouldn't play in women's sports.
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The moderation is also customizable. There's also community moderation and you could subscribe to your own moderation service.
As for the default moderation service which does skew left, the default setting on the "Intolerance" moderation category is "Warn". So even when moderated, those views aren't blocked and you can turn the settings on that category.
So again with a very few minor tweaks, you could use the service in the way you desire. Unless that conduct is rising to the level to that violates the Anti
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> Try saying there are 2 genders and that men shouldn't play in women's sports.
Go to Twitter and try saying that gender is on a spectrum and women should have bodily autonomy.
Let us know how that works out.
How do I know what I want? (Score:2)
How do I know what I want all the time? I don't want to read the same feeds, the same things, the same news, or the same approach all the time. How am I supposed to describe to an LLM how I feel and what I want to see at a particular moment? The problem with these approaches is always the same: the creators of selection algorithms pretend that you know your preferences in advance, with no possibility of change, contradicting human nature and delivering boring, monotonous feeds.
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It's not like this stops you from relying on the default feed or relying on what some other megacorp Machine Learning algorithm is pushing at you. Extra tools on an open protocol that empowers some extra choices in what to filter out seems fine, but since everything is already open you could rely on other feeds people have made (which was the selling point of BlueSky in the first place) or tie in your own filters or even make your own ML algorithm to generate you suggestions.
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That's the point. The point isn't to help you, it's to direct you into ad hell and profit hell.
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I mainly use mastodon, there is no feed algorithm. Far better than having an algo maxing views with rage and click bait tailored to my brain. Following people when they interact in an interesting way with my existing network is enough for me to discover new things. Social networks algorithms are useless to me, not designed to enhance user experience.
Hmm... (Score:1)
didn't there used to be RSS feeds (never used them) that delivered news from where you subscribed?
Of course, there's also email subscriptions to specific newsletters.
Did anyone think that Bluesky or X or FB wouldn't be incredibly biased (like on here)?
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RSS feeds never went away, here's even the link to the [1]Slashdot RSS feed [slashdot.org]. There's some RSS feed aggregators, but just like you pointed out with Slashdot the RSS sources aren't some sort of neutral panacea. Because no matter who is producing information will have a bias.
Bluesky is oddly better than most in that regard because the open protocol with the feed and filter system allows to pick feeds or create your own in order to have control over your own experience. And with that power comes the same power as
[1] https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain
Build the feed you want (Score:3)
Consume, consume, consume, yep, that's all you can do on modern social media - pointlessly shout into the void or read the insipid ramblings of people who are more rich/famous and/or more socially/politically connected than you. Because if you're just Joe Nobody, may the algorithm have mercy on your soul. Come back when you're wealthy or a public figure.
That's why I haven't bothered with BlueSky. If I wanted to circle jerk over famous people or shout into an empty void, I can still do that just fine over on the site formerly known as Twitter.
Unnecessary (Score:2)
Bluesky is already a monolith of a certain viewpoint, these tools cannot possibly change that experience any.
Third Party Tooling (Score:4, Informative)
The previous custom feed first party custom feed generator was a pain, but there's already third party tools that are already pretty easy to use without needing the AI buzzword. [1]Skyfeed [skyfeed.app] and [2]Bluesky Feed Creator [blueskyfeedcreator.com] are pretty nice.
[1] https://skyfeed.app/
[2] https://blueskyfeedcreator.com/
soon - relevant suggestions from 8000000 partners! (Score:2)
It's all marketing bs to get a few more coins.
Re: prediction (Score:2)
Bespoke Echo Chambers? That's their new feature? Removing even the remotest possibility of an opinion differing from your own, what a great idea! /sarcasm
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Let's be honest the political echo chambers are basically at the top level service already, that ship has already sailed.
But the real power of what these filters are bring to the table which is targeted feeds on a topic. Want to keep up to date with the latest metagame in a trading card game, find the creators of strangest neon colored fantasy dildos, connect with nature photographers obsessed with macroscopic raindrops on tree leaves, find mechanics that work on late century steam and gas engines, or loca