Weren't they already doing that? I recall before I bailed from X/Twitter they already added an AI training consent toggle, which silently defaulted to "I consent" for all existing users of course.

> I recall before I bailed from X/Twitter they already added an AI training consent toggle, which silently defaulted to "I consent" for all existing users of course.

There's a solution for that: build a Twitter bot that posts strange things.

Are the porn bots still around? Maybe they were the heroes we needed after all.

There is a setting (opt-out outside of EU, opt-in inside EU I think) that allows/forbids data sharing with X since Grok was released.

Oh yes, you can definitely be reassured that Elon and his openai dropouts working at xAI will follow that one to the tee.

I don’t really see how X data, being riddled with spam and bots, is all that uniquely useful to an AI company. Even if it was, it’s not all that clear that access to data is a defensible moat.

I think any LLM that’s not trained on X data comes out ahead.

I suppose xAI could already use the data from X, but anyway. X is a cesspool of vile hate and bots. Why would you want to train a AI on that?

Why does that warrant an acquisition?

It doesn't actually looks like another financial shifting chairs on the deck due to the xAI valuation being extremely high.