Elon Musk says Twitter users are forced to sign in to see tweets

• Elon Musk said Twitter users must temporarily sign in to view tweets to thwart data scraping by AI.
• He said that curbing “extreme levels” of scraping requires “drastic and immediate action.”
• Musk has threatened legal action against companies that “stole” Twitter data and said he welcomes the idea.

Elon Musk said Twitter must take “drastic and immediate” steps to restrict access to tweets because AI companies are stealing data.

Twitter’s CEO said Friday that it had taken action to stop “extreme levels” of data scrubbing by AI companies.

Hundreds of companies are “very aggressively collecting Twitter data,” Mr Musk said.added that social media companies without verification processes risk becoming a “bot-filled hellscape.”

The platform this week protected content by not allowing users to view tweets unless they were signed in, and not allowing previews of tweets if the link was shared in other apps.

Musk tweeted On Friday, he said the feature would be “soon to be lifted” and that it was important to take swift action to stop it. He said Twitter needs to launch a backup server to handle the increased traffic on the site.

“It’s pretty frustrating to have so many servers online in an emergency just to fuel the exorbitant valuations of some AI startups,” he said.

Billionaire Seeks Other Solutions After Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney tweeted Twitter said it was “trapped in a wall of accounts” and that browsing the web “feels terrible”.

Musk answered He argued that data scraping is affecting user experience. “What can I do to stop it? I welcome ideas,” he asked.

Sweeney was suggested It would include a ban on scraping in Twitter’s terms of service, protect itself with information security engineering, and take legal action against companies that commercially abuse the site on a large scale.

Mr. Musk replied: Said2. Scraping organizations dgaf and mask IPs through proxy servers or legitimate looking organizations. Any scraping operation was simply using the server as follows: 3. We will absolutely take legal action against those who stole our data.We will meet them in court. I’m looking forward to it, but it’s (optimistically) two to three years from now.”

According to The New York Times, SpaceX’s founders cut off OpenAI’s access to Twitter in December, reportedly because he felt the company wasn’t paying enough to license the platform’s data. ing. According to the report, OpenAI was paying about $2 million a year to collect Twitter data to help build AI chatbots.

Twitter did not immediately respond to an insider’s request for comment outside of normal business hours.