Elon Musk Thinks AI Companies 'Need To Write Some Very Large Cheques to Twitter'
Elon Musk again brought up plans to make AI companies pay up for Twitter-generated data that was used to train models.
Elon Musk thinks that major artificial intelligence companies would "need to write some very large cheques for Twitter." In the beginning of this month, Elon Musk announced that verified users would be limited to seeing 10,000 posts per day, while unverified users would be restricted to 1,000 posts daily.
Initially, the restriction was too strict, with verified accounts limited to viewing 6,000 posts a day and unverified ones restricted to 600 posts.
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Why does Musk want money from AI companies?
When it was rolled out, Elon Musk said that the move was aimed at fighting "extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation" by AI companies. In a recent blog post, Twitter explained that the move was essential to "detect and eliminate bots and other bad actors from our platform."
Lmaooo
¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2023
Earlier, Elon Musk had also expressed desire to sue companies that "stole our data." Elon Musk again brought up plans to make AI companies pay up for using Twitter-generated data to train their models.
Also read: Twitter Threatens Legal Action Over Meta's Threads, Calls It A 'Copycat' App
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Responding to a user Tweet about how Twitter data used to train AI models stays in those models forever and that many large language models would need to write large cheques to Twitter, Reddit, and Quora, Elon Musk wrote an affirmative "definitely."
Definitely
¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 5, 2023
Also read: Meta's Twitter Rival 'Threads' Is Here: Here's How To Use It
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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 had limited visibility of content for users that hadn't logged in. That was slightly changed when users were allowed to see the first Tweet of any thread without logging in.
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