Enforcement
Voluntary preference signal. Communicates a requested condition or restriction to automated systems.
It only affects actors that detect and honor the signal; it does not itself prevent reuse.
Catalog status describes public availability, not legal validity, adoption, or proven effectiveness.
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.
User Intents publishes or proposes a machine-readable preference signal for multimodal material across the collection, training, and retrieval stages. The signal communicates requested conditions; compliance depends on discovery, interpretation, and voluntary support by downstream systems. Public materials describe an in-progress proposal or implementation; the newest dated source in this profile is “Proposal discussion opened” (March 8, 2025). These details describe the published mechanism and evidence, not a finding about legal validity, adoption, or effectiveness.
Limitations
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 08, 2025 · Primary sourceProposal discussion opened
Adoption signals
No public adoption figure found.
Examples
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"
}
}