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Is this MS responding to Elon launching a ChatGPT competitor?

by mv4 3y ago

kadoban 3y ago
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.
- omgsean 3y ago
  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.
  - theolivenbaum 3y ago
    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.
BulgarianIdiot 3y ago
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.
netsharc 3y ago
MS's response to the TruthGPT announcement was probably "LOL"...
- BulgarianIdiot 3y ago
  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.
mov_eax_ecx 3y ago
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

Is this MS responding to Elon launching a ChatGPT competitor?

by mv4 3y ago

Is this MS responding to Elon launching a ChatGPT competitor?

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.

omgsean 3y ago
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.
- theolivenbaum 3y ago
  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.

BulgarianIdiot 3y ago

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.

netsharc 3y ago

MS's response to the TruthGPT announcement was probably "LOL"...

BulgarianIdiot 3y ago
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.

mov_eax_ecx 3y ago

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