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To eliminate spam bots. He didn't set out to eliminate AI. I'm honestly surprised that anyone on HN wouldn't understand this.

• ToValueFunfetti 3y ago
  It really is baffling. Removing bots from Twitter is totally orthogonal to training a bot on Twitter data- arguably the former is a prerequisite for the latter. And we've known that Musk wants to train a competing chatbot for at least 6 months now. Has he ever said anything to indicate that he wants to eliminate bots entirely? Maybe I'm overthinking it and this is just a rhetorical gotcha.
• comeonbro 3y ago
  Yeah, that this willfully stupid a comment is so high up on so important a topic is pretty damning of the value of the conversation here.
• thefurdrake 3y ago
  Ah yes, the platform formerly known as twitter shall surely NEVER allow the weights produced from analysis of its conversational data to go into the production of spambots! After all, there's definitely no market for a product that has been finely-trained on social media posts to the point where it can perfectly ape social media posts. There's no money for Twitter to make there, so the technology it produces from this analysis shall certainly never find its way into spam bots that create content indistinguishable from genuine humans on Twitter.
  • nailer 3y ago
    Cool theory but you have no supporting arguments.