{"id":631385,"date":"2023-04-20T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/elon-musk-threatens-to-sue-microsoft-over-alleged-illegal-use-of-twitter-data\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T07:06:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T12:06:00","slug":"elon-musk-threatens-to-sue-microsoft-over-alleged-illegal-use-of-twitter-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/20\/elon-musk-threatens-to-sue-microsoft-over-alleged-illegal-use-of-twitter-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Microsoft Over Alleged \u2018Illegal Use\u2019 of Twitter Data"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft after accusing the tech giant of illegally using the social media platform\u2019s data for training.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time,\u201d Musk wrote<\/a> on Twitter on April 19, without providing further details regarding the allegations.<\/p>\n

His tweet came shortly after Microsoft announced it is removing Twitter from one of its advertising platforms. According to Microsoft\u2019s official website,<\/a> starting on April 25,\u00a0Smart Campaigns with Multi-platform will no longer support Twitter.<\/p>\n

As of April 25, 2023,\u00a0advertising clients will no longer be able to, \u201caccess your Twitter account through our social management tool, create and manage drafts or Tweets, view past Tweets and engagement, schedule Tweets,\u201d the website states.<\/p>\n

The company stopped short of providing further details as to why it has dropped Twitter from its advertising platform but noted that\u00a0other social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn will continue to be available to clients.<\/p>\n

However, multiple media publications report that Twitter\u2019s Application Programming Interfaces (API) fees may have been at the center of the decision.<\/p>\n

Changes to API<\/h2>\n

Twitter\u2019s API<\/a> provides third-party companies, developers, and users with programmatic access to Twitter data and features, allowing them to create automatic tweets, search for specific hashtags and receive Twitter engagement data and regulate retweets or responses.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a high level, APIs are the way computer programs \u2018talk\u2019 to each other so that they can request and deliver information,\u201d Twitter states. Put simply, API provides solutions to companies or developers, allowing them to respond to\u00a0customer feedback on Twitter, analyze conversations taking place on the platform and send out updates.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0software intermediary is also a\u00a0valuable source for academics, according to Wired, which reports<\/a> that\u00a0there have been more than 17,500 academic papers based on the platform\u2019s data since 2020.<\/p>\n

Prior to Musk\u2019s takeover of the company, Twitter had offered the program for free. However, in March,\u00a0the official Twitter Developer account announced<\/a> that the free version of the program will now only allow\u00a0developers to write 1,500 tweets per month and they will no longer be able to\u00a0access tweets, only create them.<\/p>\n

Instead, a brand new set of API plans for developers was rolled out with greater access to various functions, with the highest tiers costing\u00a0$210,000<\/a> a month, according to Mashable.<\/p>\n

Musk \u2018Open to Ideas\u2019 for API<\/h2>\n

Responding to Musk\u2019s tweet on Wednesday,\u00a0journalist Brian Krassenstein asked if the businessman has a \u201clong-term plan\u201d regarding the API.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand charging for the API, but I think that one thing that had been great about Twitter in the past is its ability to function across the internet. In many cases, this move is killing traffic to Twitter itself from outside sources. For instance, embedding tweets elsewhere which normally would drive new users to Twitter, is cut off in some cases,\u201d\u00a0Krassenstein wrote.<\/p>\n

Replying to\u00a0Krassenstein, Musk said<\/a> he\u2019s \u201copen to ideas\u201d but \u201cripping off the Twitter database, demonetizing it (removing ads), and then selling our data to others isn\u2019t a winning solution.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Musk did not provide evidence of Microsoft\u2019s alleged \u201cillegal training\u201d and did not state what the training was for, the company has invested billions into OpenAI, the creator of the artificial intelligence system ChatGPT, which is trained<\/a> using reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) and large bodies of text from various sources across the internet, including human conversations.<\/p>\n

Last month, Musk joined\u00a0more than 1,100 individuals, including\u00a0experts and industry executives such as\u00a0Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak,\u00a0Stability AI founder, and CEO Emad Mostaque, in signing an open letter\u00a0calling on all\u00a0AI labs to pause training of systems more powerful than Chat GPT-4 for at least six months, citing concerns over their possible \u201crisks to\u00a0society and humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Epoch Times has contacted Twitter and Microsoft for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Katabella Roberts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft after accusing the tech giant of illegally using the social media platform\u2019s data for training. \u201cThey trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time,\u201d Musk wrote on Twitter on April 19, without providing further details regarding the allegations. His tweet came shortly after Microsoft announced it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,78,24351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-financial","category-microsoft","category-threatens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}