In AI Tussle, Twitter Restricts Number of Posts Users Can Read – News18

Elon Musk introduced Saturday that Twitter would quickly limit what number of tweets customers might learn per day, in a transfer meant to tamp down on the use of the positioning’s knowledge by synthetic intelligence firms.

The platform is limiting verified accounts to studying 10,000 tweets a day. Non-verified customers — the free accounts that make up the bulk of customers — are restricted to studying 1,000 tweets per day.

New unverified accounts can be restricted to 500 tweets.

The choice was made “to deal with excessive ranges of knowledge scraping” and “system manipulation” by third-celebration platforms, Musk mentioned in a tweet Saturday afternoon, as some customers rapidly hit their limits.

“Goodbye Twitter” was a trending topic in the United States following Musk’s announcement.

Twitter’s billionaire owner did not give a timeline for how long the measures would be in place.

The day earlier than, Musk had introduced that it might not be attainable to learn tweets on the positioning with out an account.

Much of the data scraping was coming from firms using it to build their AI models, Musk said, to the point that it was causing traffic issues with the site.

To create AI that can respond in a human-like capacity, many companies feed the programs examples of real-life conversations from social media sites.

“Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience,” Musk mentioned.

“Almost each firm doing AI, from startups to some of the most important firms on Earth, was scraping huge quantities of knowledge,” he said.

“It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis just to facilitate some AI startup’s outrageous valuation.”

Twitter shouldn’t be the one social media large to must wrangle with the speedy acceleration of the AI sector.

In mid-June, Reddit raised costs on third-celebration builders that had been utilizing its knowledge and sweeping up conversations posted on its boards.

It proved a controversial transfer, as many common customers additionally accessed the positioning through third-celebration platforms, and marked a shift from earlier preparations the place social media knowledge had typically been supplied totally free or a small cost.

(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)