Bluesky’s new AI tool Attie is still the most blocked account outside of JD Vance
Bluesky launched an AI assistant called Attie that allows users to create their own social media algorithms and create custom feeds within the company’s AT Protocol ecosystem. And let’s say the answer has been heated.
Bluesky’s userbase, which opposes AI, did not welcome the new product, which was released this weekend at the company’s Atmosphere conference. Instead, about 125,000 users have already blocked Attie’s Bluesky account, making it the second most blocked account on the network, according to open source data. Attie only has 1,500 followers, which means that about 83 times more users have blocked the account than followed it.
The only account with more blocks than Bluesky’s AI agent 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). That’s another company that’s hated for a platform that distorts politics.
Bluesky did not respond to a request for comment before publication.
Bluesky has grown a large part of its users – now sitting on 43 million accounts – as an alternative to Elon Musk’s restructuring of Twitter into X, a platform now suffering from Neo-Nazism and AI-generated CSAM. For many Bluesky users, the platform serves as a solution from the traditional social Internet, where AI searches, AI chats, and AI-generated video feeds are everywhere, making Attie’s launch feel like a betrayal.
Some have criticized Bluesky’s product core, noting that the platform still lacks basic features that have been highly requested, such as sending photos via DM.
From Bluesky’s point of view, this product launch is not as exciting as it seems.
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Jay Graber, Bluesky’s former CEO who recently transitioned to the CIO position, wrote in a blog post that the company thinks “AI should work for people, not platforms.”
“Right now, AI is undermining human organization while simultaneously enhancing it,” Graber wrote. “The proliferation of low-quality AI-generated content is making social media noisy and unreliable at a time when we need accurate information more than ever. The signal is getting harder to detect when and where it’s most important.”
Graber makes the point that, while there are negative uses of AI, the technology itself has a wide range of potentially useful applications, and some of them may be useful to humanity. Social media is a terrible place for volatile discussions about emotional topics. Then again, AI naysayers have good reasons to boycott the technology – the need for more AI data centers and more computing power is already having a noticeable impact on the environment while destroying culture.
Compared to the worst uses of AI, Attie’s potential danger is laughable. But for Bluesky users, this anger isn’t so much about Attie itself as it is about what it represents: a dedication to the idea that AI’s intrusion into everything is inevitable.
