Musk threatens legal action against Microsoft, alleging illegal use of Twitter data.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk has threatened Microsoft with legal action. Musk alleged that the company used Twitter’s data illegally. Musk’s statement was a response to a tweet which suggested that Microsoft’s advertising platform would no longer support Twitter.
He wrote in tweeting, ‘He illegally trained using Twitter data. Now time for the trial.
Why did Musk threaten Microsoft
In fact, Twitter had announced about two months ago that its Application Programming Interface (API) users would have to pay at least $42,000 per month. After this Microsoft refused to pay API fees for its programming.
Microsoft removes Twitter from its advertising platform
After this, Microsoft had also talked about removing Twitter from its advertising platform. The company had said that its social media planning and scheduling tool for advertising would no longer support Twitter. Microsoft had said that from April 25, users will not be able to do things like tweet and draft. He will also not be able to see past tweets and attachments. This smart compensation service from Microsoft helps advertisers manage social media campaigns across services like Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Musk’s allegation
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After all this, Musk accused Microsoft of illegally using Twitter’s data to train its Artificial Intelligence (AI) model ChatGPT. Microsoft was one of the largest investors in Open AI. He parted ways with the company in 2018. OpenAI is an AI research lab co-founded by Musk. There has been no comment from Microsoft since Musk’s allegation.
Musk has criticized OpenAI on several occasions
In an interview with Fox News, Musk criticized OpenAI, accusing it of training AI to lie. He had said that OpenAI has now become a ‘closed source’ platform only for profit.
Musk will bring artificial intelligence platform TruthGPT
Now Musk is trying to make his AI. Recently, Musk announced the launch of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform ‘TruthGPT’. Through this, Musk will compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. Also, Musk accused Google co-founder Larry Page of not taking the safety of AI seriously.
TruthGPT would be the best way of safety
In the interview, Elon Musk said, “I am going to start something which I call TruthGPT or Maximum Truth Searching AI. It will try to understand the nature of the Universe. TruthGPT will not pose any threat to humans.” He said that after the launch, TruthGPT will provide another new option apart from Google and OpenAI platform.
AI’s ability to destroy civilization
Elon Musk called his platform safe but he also believes that AI has the potential to destroy civilization. He said, ‘AI is more dangerous than any bad aircraft design and bad car production. Also, AI also has the ability to do civilization destruction.
