Twitter CEO Elon Musk threatened Microsoft with a potential lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming the software giant used his company’s data to train AI in which it’s invested. “They trained illegally using Twitter data,” Musk tweeted. “Lawsuit time.”
They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 19, 2023
Musk’s threat by tweet came after Mashable and other publications reported that Microsoft would drop Twitter from its advertising platform, which enables ad buyers to manage all of their social media accounts in one place.
Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI last year in an unusually structured deal. Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI before leaving its board in 2018, and has complained recently of the company’s move from a nonprofit model to a highly valuable business influenced by Microsoft.
Musk said in December that Twitter would “pause” OpenAI’s access to its database. He’s also announced plans to build his own large language model in one of his companies called TruthGPT.
MacDailyNews Take: Microsoft stealing? Say it ain’t so.
Gates based his entire career on a theft and then used that to leverage Microsoft's other spaghetti-coded crap like Office to market prominence.
Nobody should be surprised that a liar and a thief lies and steals. pic.twitter.com/cfNekJPFGR
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Thief.
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It won’t be the first time Microsoft stole something. Windows 95. Mac 84. Think about it.
Not sure who to root for! They’re both pretty shitty
Yes, one is advancing space travel faster than anyone in history, trying to bring battery power to transportation, exposing the inner-Fascist state plus several other inventions….
And the other is Microsoft.
Easy to confuse.
Interesting development in the tech industry. It’s good to see leaders like Musk taking action to protect their company’s data.
MDN’s take is perfect again… Due to production delays encountered in the first Mac, he violated his “buddy deal” with Steve Jobs and rushed to market his kluge software “Windows” to grab the gov’t; business and some of the educational markets and then profited hugely with very expensive updates. Jobs had showed him a preview of the new Mac’s GUI system with the understanding that he’d wait for a year before releasing a MicroShaft version. It took 15 months from then until the Mac began final production. The rest is history and infamy for Gates the THIEF. Just like happened again with Google and the iPhone copy. Steve trusted and respected his fellow tech pioneers; they stabbed him in the back…