Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft for using Twitter data for training its artificial intelligence without authorization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His tweet came after Mashable and other publications reported Microsoft would remove Twitter from its advertising platform<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The platform allows ad buyers to manage their social media accounts in one place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: Twitter recovers from debts as advertisers return after Elon Musk takeover<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Musk tweeted: \u201cThey trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk, who also runs Tesla and SpaceX, is well-known for tweeting things never happen, and no legal action seems to have been lodged.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk’s statement is the latest sign data ownership is soon becoming a contentious battleground in the generative AI race.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Big Tech firms aim for cutting-edge AI models like OpenAI’s GPT, while data owners are trying to block them or charge for usage of their content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: Elon Musk and others call for pause on AI development over potential risks to \u201csociety and humanity\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Microsoft builds large language models (LLMs) and offers access to OpenAI models. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The tech giant spent $10 billion on OpenAI last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Musk co-founded OpenAI before quitting its board in 2018 and has lately criticized the company’s shift from a nonprofit<\/a><\/strong> model to a highly valuable business backed by Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For training, LLMs like GPT require terabytes of data, much of which is taken from sites like Reddit, StackOverflow, and Twitter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice?<\/strong> Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Social network training<\/a><\/strong> data can be beneficial because it captures informal, back-and-forth conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Data owners are starting to make demands as these new AI models move from labs and universities into the corporate sphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In December, Musk stated that Twitter will “pause” OpenAI’s access to its database. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition, he announced goals to construct his huge language model in one of his firms, TruthGPT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: <\/strong>CNBC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" His tweet came after Mashable and other publications reported Microsoft would remove Twitter from its advertising platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,1065],"tags":[686,562,329],"class_list":["post-41456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twitter-news","category-us-business-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-microsoft","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}