Twitter CEO Elon Musk unveiled plans over the weekend to limit the number of posts each user can see per day to address the “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation” on the micro-blogging website.
Elon Musk said the limits would only be temporary and would limit non-verified users to viewing 600 posts per day. Verified accounts, who pay $8 per month, can view up to 6,000 posts per day.
The total numbers were later raised to 1,000 and 10,000 respectively following a series of user complaints and blockages on various Twitter-related platforms.
Elon Musk later tweeted that “almost every company that does AI work” is consuming “enormous amounts of data” from the website, which is causing significant costs to Twitter as it faces increased traffic. Planning to do more to manage. Servers have been added.
In fact, the U.K. -based comparison service CassianoAlpha reported that searches for “delete Twitter” have increased by 131% since last week, based on Google search data. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the German government said authorities were “trying or looking at other channels” for its communication in light of new viewing restrictions brought in by Musk last year and a change in platform.
Billionaire Tesla (TSLA) – Get the free report The CEO gave up daily control of Twitter last month after NBCUniversal hired former executive Linda Yacarino.
Earlier this spring, Musk wrote a letter to Microsoft (MSFT) — a Get Free report saying the tech giant was using more data than allowed and sharing some of that data with government officials. Were staying Breach of an agreement.
In a response reported by Reuters, Microsoft said it would review the letter and “look forward to continuing our long-standing partnership with the company.”
Earlier, according to a New York Times report, Musk had terminated OpenAI’s access to Twitter data, saying he was unhappy with the $2 million annual license agreement.
Elon Musk, who bought the company late last year for $44 billion, reportedly plans to use Twitter data to train a large language model used by AI startup X.AI , which may challenge Microsoft’s ChatGPT in the near future.
Elon Musk, who has spoken at length about the “serious dangers to society” he says stem from the uncontrolled spread of artificial intelligence, told Fox News in April that he wanted to “start something that are planning what I will call ‘TruthGPT’ or Maxim. Truth. – The search for an AI that seeks to understand the nature of the universe.”
And I think that may be the best path to security, in the sense that an AI that cares about understanding the universe is unlikely to destroy humans because we are an interesting part of the universe,” Elon Musk he said.