Elon Musk has accused Microsoft of not honoring its agreement with Twitter regarding the use of social network data, and this accusation is part of the race for artificial intelligence, which is characterized by its great voracious appetite for digital data.
“It appears that Microsoft used the Twitter API for unauthorized purposes,” said lawyer Alex Spiro, Elon Musk’s representative, in a letter sent Thursday to Satya Nadella, head of the American Informatics Group, whose content was seen by Agence France-Presse.
And Twitter confirmed that Microsoft used more data than it was allowed to, and provided government agencies with some of this data without permission.
The platform, which the Tesla chief bought in October, also noted that Microsoft “refused even to pay a discounted price for continued access to Twitter’s API and content.”
The APIs allow other companies, such as Microsoft, to develop tools for their own products (adware, cloud applications, etc.).
The letter indicated that “Microsoft programs managed, despite the restrictions, to access the Twitter APIs more than 780 million times and retrieved more than 26 billion tweets in 2022 alone.”
Microsoft confirmed that it had received reviews from platform agents regarding its “past use of free Twitter APIs.”
“We will review these questions and respond appropriately,” a company spokesperson said in a statement, stressing the aspiration to “continue the long-term partnership” with Twitter.
And Twitter announced in March, as part of its efforts to strengthen its financial position, that developers should pay more for its services and data.
Musk last month accused Microsoft of “illegitimately training” its AI technologies with Twitter data. “It’s time for the courts,” he wrote in a tweet
2023-05-19 12:42:59
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