Elon Musk accuses Microsoft of not having respected its agreement with Twitter on the use of data from the social network, a reproach that is part of the race for artificial intelligence, very greedy in digital data.
The platform, bought in October by the Tesla boss, also notes that Microsoft has “refused to pay even a reduced fee to continue access to Twitter APIs and content.”
26 billion tweets retrieved by 2022
APIs allow third-party companies, such as Microsoft, to develop tools for their own products (adware, cloud applications, etc.).
“Despite the limitations, Microsoft programs accessed Twitter APIs more than 780 million times and retrieved more than 26 billion tweets in 2022 alone,” the letter says, before requesting a detailed audit.
Twitter, in a precarious financial situation, announced in March that developers would have to pay more to access its services and data. And last month, Elon Musk accused Microsoft of “illegally training” its artificial intelligence (AI) technologies on Twitter data. “The time for judgment has come,” he tweeted.
The success of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s generative AI interface capable of producing all kinds of simple text-on-demand in everyday language, has launched a veritable race for this technology among American tech giants.
Microsoft seems to have taken the lead, thanks in particular to its significant investments in OpenAI.
Source: BFM TV
