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Re:Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform by mv4 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:20PM (#35632821)
Is this MS responding to Elon launching a ChatGPT competitor?
Re:Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform by kadoban on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:22PM (#35632836)
It's more likely MS responding to Elon tearing down their API and making their site worse.

It's not worth their time or money, I'd bet that that API integration helps Twitter more than it helps MS.

Re:Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform by omgsean on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @04:39PM (#35633045)
There are likely a ton of tools that are using the Twitter API in ways that helps Twitter and almost all of them are going to be locked out because there's no way they can afford $42,000/mo.
Re:Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform by theolivenbaum on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:15PM (#35634004)
I'm on a slack channel of (mostly former by now) developers using the Twitter API, and the general feeling is that Twitter is dead for most. A few lucky ones are able to afford the new 42k/m price point, and everyone else has been kicked out without any respect by Twitter, and won't be coming back.
Re:Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform by BulgarianIdiot on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:52PM (#35633774)
Microsoft is not ruled by a banana republic dictator wannabe, I think you're confusing Nadella for Musk. Twitter also has no ChatGPT competitor, all they have is 10k GPUs and lots of naked aspirations.

Microsoft is rather responding to them using Twitter's API, and Twitter restricted their API, so Microsoft dropped their products that were using it. It's entirely Twitter's fault.

Re:Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform by netsharc on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @05:52PM (#35633776)
MS's response to the TruthGPT announcement was probably "LOL"...
Re:Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform by BulgarianIdiot on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:13AM (#35638107)
It's very weird he also called it TruthGPT, because it sounds like the bastard child of OpenAI's ChatGPT and TruthSocial, rather than a product by Twitter.

The man has no clue whatsoever.

Re:Microsoft drops Twitter from its advertising platform by mov_eax_ecx on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @06:26PM (#35634114)
This is in response to Elon Musk suing Microsoft and OpenAI for using tweets to train GPT. There are already precedents, such as the Authors Guild vs. Google Books, where it was deemed fair use to use copyrighted works to build a searchable database.

Musk's objective is not to win the lawsuit, though. It is to create as many barriers and troubles for AI companies as possible so that he can catch up with his own technology