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.

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.