Executive Chair Elon Musk announced that Twitter is instituting a daily limit on the number of tweets that individual accounts can read in an effort to reduce “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation.
After browsing through several hundred tweets, users can be locked off of Twitter for the day as a result of the restrictions.
According to Musk, unverified accounts would be limited to reading 300 posts per day, down from the initial maximum of 600 for confirmed accounts to read 6,000 posts per day.
Musk stated in another post without offering any additional information that the temporary reading restriction was then increased to 10,000 posts per day for verified users, 1,000 posts per day for unverified users, and 500 posts per day for new unverified users.
Twitter previously announced that in order to view tweets, users will need to sign into their accounts.
The usage of Twitter data to train well-known artificial intelligence programs like ChatGPT has been criticized by Musk as being misused.
To create text, images, videos, and other content that resembles human speech, they comb through reams of web data.
Hundreds of billions of actual human conversations are stored on platforms like Twitter, providing AI businesses with a great resource.
However, platforms such as Twitter want to be compensated for this usage of their data.
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