Elon Musk told Twitter users on Friday that a requirement to have an account to view tweets was just a 'temporary emergency measure' due to data pillaging.
Friday that a requirement to have an account to view tweets was a "temporary emergency measure."
"We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!" the billionaire wrote. Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla, during the EEI 2023 event in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. "Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data. 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," he said. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a meeting, at the Station F in Paris on May 26, 2023.
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