New Bluesky AI only slightly less unpopular than JD Vance
Just days after Bluesky announced its new AI product, Attie, the coding assistant has already become the second most blocked account on the platform.
The Attie profile has already received a cold reception from 125,000 users, TechCrunch reported. With just 1,500 followers, that means 83 times more users have blocked Attie than followed him — that number is higher than the official White House account, the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) profile, and is second only to Vice President JD Vance, according to open source data.
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Attie was announced at the Bluesky-sponsored ATmosphere AT protocol conference by former CEO and now chief innovation officer Jay Graber. As Graber and co-host Paul Frazee, CTO of Bluesky, explain, Attie is an agent app that allows users to “vibe code” their own social feeds. It’s a tool that the platform says will help reduce low-quality AI-generated errors and misinformation that proliferate on the internet.
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Following widespread derision from Bluesky users, who denounced Bluesky’s investment in generative AI products and flatly rejected Attie’s integration on the open source platform, Graber issued a response:
“We hear the concerns about AI. Our goal is to use this technology to give people greater control, not to generate content. Attie uses AI to help you create personalized feeds without having to know how to code.
We will explore ways to accommodate the preferences expressed by people who blocked @attie.ai. The team has progressed to private accounts. There was a lot of good feedback on the technology at ATmosphereConf this week, and we’ll have more to share soon. »
If you haven’t already blocked Attie and have an open mind about the app’s mood-coding possibilities, you’ll probably have to wait a little longer. It is still in closed beta by invitation only. Register on the waiting list on the Attie website.
