My guess is that he didn’t think this through before deciding on the limitations. In his mind he’s thwarting AI scraping, but he’s forgetting about the side effects on users and advertisers.
Even if he goes the legal route to stop scraping, he’s not likely to succeed. One of the long-tweets responding to Musk noted that when companies tried to sue scrappers, courts sided with the scrappers it the information was publicly accessible.
I literally just thought about this in the shower earlier: What if Muskman is doing all this in revolt against the upcoming | waitlisted | still-in-beta social media platform Bluesky? Someone on Mastodon pointed out that Bluesky can somehow retrieve data from Twitter. So, similar to what Reddit is doing with its API, supposedly to ‘combat’ AI (though their real motivation was to kill third-party apps), maybe Muskman is imposing all these restrictions to cripple the launch of Bluesky. According to what I’ve heard on Mastodon, Bluesky is the next big thing for ‘Twitter influencers,’ and Twitter wouldn’t be Twitter without them.
Disclaimer: This is a shower thought that I have not fact-checked, and I don’t plan to either. Twitter and Reddit can all go down the drain as far as I’m concerned. I’m fully federated."
bird.makeup is a service that does this for ActivityPub/Mastodon. I think Elon is moving in that direction, but so far he hasn’t actually beaten those services.
I still don’t understand his strategy or plan. It makes zero sense to me.
My guess is that he didn’t think this through before deciding on the limitations. In his mind he’s thwarting AI scraping, but he’s forgetting about the side effects on users and advertisers.
Even if he goes the legal route to stop scraping, he’s not likely to succeed. One of the long-tweets responding to Musk noted that when companies tried to sue scrappers, courts sided with the scrappers it the information was publicly accessible.
I’m still not convinced he’s got one. I feel like he keeps trying the “throw it at the wall and see what sticks” form of management.
Which might work for startups. Not with platforms with hundreds of millions of users.
I literally just thought about this in the shower earlier: What if Muskman is doing all this in revolt against the upcoming | waitlisted | still-in-beta social media platform Bluesky? Someone on Mastodon pointed out that Bluesky can somehow retrieve data from Twitter. So, similar to what Reddit is doing with its API, supposedly to ‘combat’ AI (though their real motivation was to kill third-party apps), maybe Muskman is imposing all these restrictions to cripple the launch of Bluesky. According to what I’ve heard on Mastodon, Bluesky is the next big thing for ‘Twitter influencers,’ and Twitter wouldn’t be Twitter without them.
Disclaimer: This is a shower thought that I have not fact-checked, and I don’t plan to either. Twitter and Reddit can all go down the drain as far as I’m concerned. I’m fully federated."
bird.makeup is a service that does this for ActivityPub/Mastodon. I think Elon is moving in that direction, but so far he hasn’t actually beaten those services.