Musk angrily denounces the big model for stealing data, and Twitter limits new users to 500 views a day: to eliminate robot accounts

Source: The Paper

The turmoil about Twitter's "reading restrictions" continues, and Twitter's official post explains the reasons for this action.

On July 4 local time, the social platform Twitter (Twitter) stated in its latest blog post that the recently added reading limit on the Twitter platform is to "detect and eliminate bad actors such as robots", and stated that Only a "small percentage" of real users were affected.

Twitter also said an update will be provided when the work is complete. Because customers are involved, these measures have very little impact on advertising.

Twitter claimed: "To ensure the authenticity of users, we must take strong measures to remove robot accounts on the platform. But advance notice will make these accounts wary." Twitter said that these actions are mainly to prevent someone from grabbing users The use of data to build AI models is also to prevent the platform from being manipulated.

On the morning of July 1 local time, Twitter experienced a large-scale service interruption. A large number of users said they received an error message reminding them that they exceeded the "quantity limit", violated Twitter's rules, and downloaded and viewed too many tweets.

In the afternoon, Twitter boss Musk posted that hundreds or more organizations were actively scraping Twitter data, which had an impact on user experience. In response to this situation, Twitter decided to limit the number of posts that users can read per day in order to reduce server load and improve the operating efficiency of the system.

To prevent "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Twitter is limiting the number of tweets users can read: 6,000 tweets per day for authenticated accounts and 600 tweets per day for unauthenticated accounts , new unauthenticated accounts are limited to 300 tweets per day.

Musk also said that the reason he set the "reading limit" is that everyone is addicted to the world of social media, "I am doing a good thing for the world." He hopes that through this limit, people will be encouraged to use their phones less and spend more time Intimate interaction with family and friends.

As soon as the "reading limit" was released, terms such as "#GoodbyeTwitter" quickly became popular on Twitter. Many users said that if the restrictions cannot be lifted, they will turn to other social platforms. Some users said they would ditch Twitter and switch to other social media if the restrictions persisted.

In response, Musk quickly responded. Just a few hours after announcing the initial limit, he tweeted that he had raised the limit to 8,000 for verified accounts, 800 for unverified accounts, and 400 for new unverified accounts, and raised the limits to 10,000 views each again on the same day. bars, 1000 bars, and 500 bars.

Earlier on June 30, Twitter announced that it would require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets. Musk called the move a "temporary emergency measure" on June 30, accusing artificial intelligence companies of illegally using Twitter data to train their big language models.

"Our data has been stolen so much that it has degraded the quality of service for ordinary users." Musk also added that hundreds or more organizations are "extremely active" scraping Twitter data, affecting users. experience.

Musk said Twitter was grappling with "extreme levels of data scraping" and "system manipulation." He said the new restrictions were an important measure to curb these pressing problems. However, he did not say who was scraping Twitter's data, how long the problem had been going on, or explain in detail how the system was being manipulated.

Earlier, Musk publicly expressed dissatisfaction with artificial intelligence companies such as ChatGPT owner OpenAI using Twitter's data to train large language models. In April, Musk accused Microsoft of illegally using data from Twitter to train its artificial intelligence models, and warned he would sue the software giant. Musk said, "They illegally trained using Twitter data. Litigation time is up."