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.
Elon Musk’s attorney, Alex Spiro, said in a letter he sent Thursday to the head of the American Informatics Group, Satya Nadella: “It appears that Microsoft used the Twitter API for unauthorized purposes,” according to 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 message 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.”
Last month, Musk accused Microsoft of “illegally training” its AI technologies with Twitter data. “It’s time for a trial,” he wrote in a tweet.
2023-05-20 18:14:21
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