Elon Musk blamed AI companies for new “temporary” limitations on Twitter access. Verified accounts can read up to 6,000 posts per day, while unverified users are limited to seeing 600 posts per day.
Blaming AI companies as a reason for making stupid decisions, where have I heard this before?
This isn’t how you handle automated processes scraping you, you handle that by restricting things that human beings can’t do. Preventing literally every user from seeing a reasonable amount of content is just cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I’m in IT for a company with a significant web presence. We rely on Akamai for a number of services including CDN and WAF (web application firewall). They have a WAF add-on called Bot Manager that can pretty accurately identify web traffic from bots in real time. If what Musk is claiming was true then tools like Akamais Bot Manager and other similar products would easily identify this traffic and allow them to block it or route it elsewhere.
Musk should know this. I know Tesla uses Akamai.
I’m pretty sure he doesn’t wanna pay such service and prefer cheaper / easier way.
Of course the manchild with fragile ego blames other people for his problems.
It‘s like a toddler who cries when someone else wants to play with their toys.
I wonder if this is what just automatically happens to some rich people, they never were taught to or needed to share anything, certainly would explain the pathologic wealth hoarding.
He really thinks people want to pay $8 USD a month to scroll through bots, ads, and trolls all day long.
New Reddit can give you the same experience for free. If you want an endless feed of bot garbage, there are competitors doing it for free.
You have to be so candide to believe in this. Scrappers didn’t appeared out of the blue yesterday, if it was to fight it the company would have warn the users about the coming changes.
It’s obvious that’s it’s an emergency change because of him not paying Google Cloud while trying to push for Twitter Blue.
I feel like the limits were chosen to force twitter addicts to upgrade to blue.
6,000/day isn’t that much since I heard it counts all replies, too.
I think this might also be related to their Google Cloud bills and inability to move off that platform fast enough. Now they don’t want to have to pay for the usage.
People like him never admit to doing anything wrong. If only more people’d learn this sort of behaviour should give them major red flags.
Seems like he shouldn’t have bought the bird website and fucked around with it. Not saying I’d do any better if I bought the bird website and fucked around with it, but Jesus Fuck, you’d think you’d buy the bird website, watch it for like a year, and THEN fuck around with it once you’ve watched it for a while?
The guy has too many doubloons to know what to do with. He should probably slow down or something.
I think people are missing the bigger picture here. We’re approaching a point where AI might not be feasible because of privacy concerns and copyright infringement. Midjourney is scraping art from millions of artists without their permission or knowledge.
If I look at 12 van goghs (or any artist) painting and tried to make something in a similar style do i need permission? I don’t see why how the AI learns is relevent. As long as the creation in the end is original.
Good point, most artists don’t live in a vacuum these days. The art we create results from a similar traning process than the AI’s. Maybe just treat AI art the same with all rules about plagiarism so that it has to be original as well?
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Personally, I believe that all AI generated content must be non for profit. You can create anything you like, for any purpose, as long as it doesn’t make you money.
If I am a news article and I generate a photo to accompany the article is that for profit? Making ad money of the page.
You are not allowed to use any media commercially for free, why would that be different for an AI?
Because they’re not using it. They’re generating something original. It’s not a copy paste job. You imagine ai art is like a ransom note or a collage. It’s more like reading a text book on drawing and then creating that drawing.
