What it is
User Intents is an AT Protocol proposal for letting people declare how their public social data may be reused, including for generative-AI training. A public demo already maps these declarations to draft AIPref-style HTTP signaling for web access.
The work is notable because it moves preference signaling from site operators toward end users, but it is still early and not yet a standardized, network-wide default.
Watchouts
This is still a proposal plus demo implementation, and its enforcement model is voluntary in the same sense as other preference-signal approaches.
Evidence trail
- Mar 07, 2025 Proposal discussion opened
Examples
Declaration record example Source
The atproto proposal discussion includes a concrete account-level declaration record with AI generation disallowed.
{
"$type": "org.user-intents.declaration",
"updatedAt": "2025-02-20T21:37:20.362Z",
"org.user-intents.syntheticContentGeneration": {
"allow": false,
"updatedAt": "2025-02-20T21:37:20.362Z"
}
}