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Elon has responded to the criticism and is increasing the limits to a whopping:
Verified accounts: 8000 posts/day
Unverified accounts: 800 posts/day
New unverified accounts: 400 posts/day
Don't you want users to be on the platform as long as possible to maximize ad revenue? If this was just to force people to pay for verification, why wouldn't they make that tier unlimited? I honestly can't even believe this is real.
So a subscription is only 10x more valuable than a non-paying leech?
Someone is desperate to monetize lurkers. That seems like a self-defeating strategy.
In fairness, most Twitter users do need to touch grass...
400 posts a day seems like a lot. Am I missing something here? Is a post a tweet?
Seems Elon wants to keep Twitter as his own personal echo chamber and having an exclusive club for like-minded folk willing to pay. Limiting posts is one thing, reading limitations is just crazy.
Touch grass, indeed
Unverified and new unverified? Lol. What's exactly "new" here?
A new account, presumably.
When you do the right thing for the wrong reason...
My question is , What is smoking this guy??
If you have 800 posts available and you read a post every 10 seconds, then you can only spend 2,2 hours per day on the site before you can't see new posts.
Twitter basically forces its users to verify their accounts to use the site in a normal way. That will definitly backfire.
That is so cool. Elon is just trying to help.
Has he finally go completely insane? It feels like he wants to kill the platform for some reason
How true is the LLM data scraping threat?
Who knows. One thing for sure is that this is just one more thing he pulled out of his ass without any backing
It's not. He's probably lying to save face and just forgot to pay his bills.
Meta has shown that getting huge amounts of training data can lead to great results with a model that's much simpler than what openAI uses and it looks like they are taking a more open approach to LLMs because of that. Twitter has shitloads of possible training data, but it's Twitter so that data isn't great.
Elon is known to be afraid of AGIs becoming hostile, so that explains the decision.
I don't think it'll slow down AI development too much. There are new Llama-based models coming out every month that are better than the previous ones.
Reddit is a much better source of data and if they don't want to lose SEO, their data can still be gathered by scraping even after the API changes take effect.