Elon Musk thinks big AI companies “need to write Twitter a pretty big check.” Earlier this month, Elon Musk announced that authenticated users will be limited to 10,000 posts per day, and unverified users will be limited to 1,000 posts per day.
Initially, this limit was too restrictive, limiting verified accounts to 6,000 posts per day and unverified accounts to 600 posts per day.
Why does Mr. Musk want money from AI companies?
As it unfolded, Elon Musk said the move was aimed at combating “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation” by AI companies. In a recent blog post, Twitter said the move was essential to “detecting and removing bots and other malicious actors from our platform.”
Earlier, Elon Musk also announced his intention to sue companies that “stole our data.” Elon Musk has reiterated plans to have AI companies pay to train models using Twitter-generated data.
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Users of how the Twitter data used to train AI models stays with those models forever, and that many large language models would require writing large checks to Twitter, Reddit, and Quora. In response to the tweet, Elon Musk wrote a positive comment, “Definitely.”
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As part of Musk’s intention to limit the access and reach of bots and AI tools on Twitter, the company restricted the visibility of content to users who weren’t logged in. Now that users can see the first tweet of any tweet, things have changed a bit. Create a thread without logging in.
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