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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by epidemian on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:52AM (#36548155)
> [...] perhaps Twitter was sold for its existing content rather than existing or active user base.

Not a very significant distinction: if active users stopped posting, scrappers wouldn't have much of a reason to keep scrapping.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by Retric on Saturday July 01, 2023 @05:37AM (#36548369)
AI startups don’t particularly care if content is 3 minutes old or 3 years.
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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by theteapot on Saturday July 01, 2023 @06:04AM (#36548487)
Yet.
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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by valval on Saturday July 01, 2023 @06:10AM (#36548520)
They absolutely do. What are you even saying?
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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by Retric on Saturday July 01, 2023 @06:21AM (#36548571)
AI startups training data covers content going back years. DALLE for example was trained on hundreds of year old paintings alongside more modern works.

Age may be included as part of the training but they generally want to suck up as much data as possible.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by astrange on Saturday July 01, 2023 @09:10PM (#36557153)
If you're adding new/marginal data you should want it to be as current as possible so it'll have things like trending slang terms.
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