It was discovered that Earon Mask had blocked access to Twitter data, thinking that the annual license fee of $ 2 million paid by OpenAI was insufficient

A license to provide Twitter data for about $ 2 million a year (about 270 million yen) to support the construction of chat AI 'ChatGPT' developed by OpenAI, an AI research group, by CEO Elon Musk of Twitter. It was revealed that the contract was signed with OpenAI. However, it is reported that Mr. Musk thought that the license agreement of about $ 2 million per year with OpenAI was not sufficient, and blocked access to Twitter data in December 2022.

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OpenAI, an AI research organization , was established as a non-profit company by Sam Altman and Mask in 2015, with a total investment of $ 1 billion (about 130 billion yen). However, in February 2018, Mr. Mask resigned as a director due to deterioration of relations with OpenAI.

Meanwhile, Musk signed a licensing agreement with OpenAI to provide Twitter data, including feeds of all tweets, for about $2 million a year to help develop ChatGPT. However, Mr. Mask deleted OpenAI from Twitter's data provider in December 2022, saying that ``OpenAI has not paid Twitter enough compensation.''

Since the end of providing data to OpenAI, Mr. Musk has signed a letter calling for the immediate suspension of advanced AI development, claiming that there is a ``serious risk to society and humanity,'' while he himself has 10,000 GPUs. It was reported in April 2023 that he had purchased and was working on his own AI project.

Elon Musk, who requested ``suspension of AI research for 6 months'', found out that he was purchasing 10,000 GPUs and proceeding with his own AI project - GIGAZINE

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After that, in April 2023, Mr. Mask, who established a new company specializing in AI, ' X.AI ', developed a unique chat AI called 'TruthGPT' with the goal of 'unraveling the essence of the universe'. We are announcing that

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In addition, in April 2023, Microsoft will remove Twitter from support on its advertising platform `` Microsoft advertising '', Mr. Mask said, ``Microsoft used Twitter data to conduct illegal training. It's time,' he tweeted .

Earon Mask announced that Microsoft advertising will not support Twitter in the future and tweeted anger that it was 'time for lawsuit' - GIGAZINE

On the other hand, it is reported that Twitter, which continues to leak to other platforms such as Mastodon and Bluesky, will abolish the search function for users who are not logged in to Twitter. Until now, it was possible to access the search feed even if you were not logged in on Twitter, but from now on, if you try to enter text in the search feed while not logged in, you will be sent to the login screen. About.

Technology news media Gizmodo said, ``This change means that you will have to log in to an existing account or create a new account to access Twitter search results, and will increase the number of users on the platform. It may be Mr. Musk's ruse.'