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PSA: Your Twitter/X account is about to change forever (mashable.com)
3 points by MilnerRoute 55 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



That is some A grade FUD. You know the article is going to be good when the tag line is:

> If you don't want Elon Musk to feed your tweets to his AI, now might be the time to leave the app formerly known as Twitter.

Ok. Time to leave google because Google is training its AI on your search queries. What about Facebook? Gmail maybe? eff it, we gotta exit Windows too soon enough.

The whole AI data training thing is inevitable. If you're worried about your data, don't put it out there to begin with. Even if whatever platform you're using guarantees that it won't use your data for AI training, it will be scraped with or without said platform's permission.


HiQ vs. LinkedIn is the lawsuit that says scraping content behind a login wall is illegal, so with a very big if, you can prove the content scraped was behind a login wall, then you have the starting of grounds for a lawsuit.




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