Wait until you realize ‘verified’ paid accounts will be a necessity in the future to prove personhood unless we toss it all in the wind and create a national id system which guess what, you’ll be tracked by.
Which way brave one? You will lose an arm or a leg. You get to choose
Why should Twitter care about AI scraping, beyond the load it causes to their servers? Scraping isn't new, and I don't think the overall rate of scraping has changed much since the advent of AI - it only needs to be scraped once, then it's in a dataset (I don't have any stats to back this up, though)
Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data,” Musk 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. Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience."
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
If you have a company building AI on top of Twitter's data, it could've been a company Twitter itself could've built. It's the feeling of lost money for them.
The API has been wide open until 2023, so if there was anything of value, I think we would have seen something by now. Musk would also have been focused on that instead of trying to become WeChat US.
I'm not convinced AI scraping has anything to do with it. A company resourceful enough to develop & train AI is fully capable of setting up infrastructure to massively create bot accounts to bypass the loginwall.
Wait until you realize ‘verified’ paid accounts will be a necessity in the future to prove personhood unless we toss it all in the wind and create a national id system which guess what, you’ll be tracked by.
Which way brave one? You will lose an arm or a leg. You get to choose