Elon Musk announced on Saturday that Twitter would temporarily restrictto read tweets in order to reduce the massive use of data by third parties to feed models of artificial intelligence
The social network will limit reading to 10,000 messages per day for verified accounts, 1,000 for unverified users, and 500 for new unverified accounts. Musk, usually unpredictable in decisions about the platform, thus increased the initial limit (8,000, 600 and 300 daily views) that he had announced just hours before.
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The decision was made “to remedy extreme levels of data collection and system manipulation“, Musk explained in a tweet. The day before he had already announced that in the future it would not be possible to read messages on the social network without connecting to a personal account and giving your identifiers.
“Hundreds of organizations (perhaps more) were extremely aggressively mining data from Twitter, to the point of affecting the actual user experience.“said Musk, majority shareholder and CEO of the group based in San Francisco (California).
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By limiting the number of tweets that can be read per account, Musk seeks to prevent these organizations from collecting massive amounts of data that is used in particular to develop so-called generative artificial intelligence (AI) models.
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In order to develop a generative model capable of responding in a human way to everyday linguistic requests, these companies must “train” the interface giving you examples of conversations.
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“Nearly every company doing AI, from start-ups to some of the world’s largest corporations, was mining vast amounts of data.“, insisted the tycoon. “It’s quite galling to have to urgently add a large number of servers just to facilitate the outrageous valuation of some AI startups“.
These additional servers were necessary for Twitter to support heavy traffic and use of the platform by software or bots, e.g.but not by common users.
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Twitter is not the only one facing the consequences of the explosion of generative AI and the development of services based on linguistic models. In mid-June, the Reddit discussion platform raised the prices it charges third-party developers for using the data and conversations posted on the social network.
The decision provoked protests, since until then these platforms had provided access to public data on their site at moderate prices or for free.
AFP
