The alternative to X/Twitter has told users they can be reassured that the social media site will never use their content to train artificial intelligence if they specify that they do not give their consent.

However, they are still investigating the legal parameters of outside developers "crawling their data" and using it as they please.

A series of posts on the app's X page read: "Bluesky is an open and public social network, much like websites on the Internet itself. Websites can specify whether they consent to outside companies crawling their data with a robots.txt file, and we’re investigating a similar practice here."

It continued: "For example, this might look like a setting that allows Bluesky users to specify whether they consent to outside developers using their content in AI training datasets

"Bluesky won’t be able to enforce this consent outside of our systems. It will be up to outside developers to respect these settings."

Bluesky added: "We’re having ongoing conversations with engineers and lawyers and we hope to have more updates to share on this shortly!"