NEW YORK: Elon Musk introduced late on Saturday that Twitter would briefly limit what number of tweets customers might learn per day, in a transfer meant to tamp down on the usage 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 vast majority 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 handle excessive ranges of information scraping” and “system manipulation” by third-party platforms, Musk mentioned in a tweet Saturday afternoon, as some customers shortly hit their limits.
“Goodbye Twitter” was a trending subject in the USA following Musk´s announcement.
Twitter´s billionaire proprietor didn’t give a timeline for the way lengthy the measures can be in place.
The day earlier than, Musk had introduced that it could now not be doable to learn tweets on the positioning with out an account.
A lot of the information scraping was coming from companies utilizing it to construct their AI fashions, Musk mentioned, to the purpose that it was inflicting site visitors points with the positioning.
To create AI that may reply in a human-like capability, many firms feed the applications examples of real-life conversations from social media websites.
“A number of hundred organizations (perhaps extra) had been scraping Twitter knowledge extraordinarily aggressively, to the purpose the place it was affecting the true person expertise,” Musk mentioned.
“Virtually each firm doing AI, from startups to among the greatest firms on Earth, was scraping huge quantities of information,” he mentioned.