Elon Musk Apparently it is not going through its best financial moment after the purchase of Twitter and in the midst of this complicated economic scenario it now seems that the possibility of suing Microsoft for an exorbitant sum of money for a matter related to Artificial Intelligence is being considered.
This is a situation with a considerable amount of nuance that is worth addressing. We recently saw the tycoon being interviewed in foxnewswhere he became honest and ended up confessing that for him currently it would not have been a smart financial decision to have bought the blue bird’s social network.
All after a turbulent period of almost half a year where the platform has radically transformed under the ambition of making it generate more revenue in less time, triggering a chain reaction that has diminished its popularity, growth, advertisers and genuine user base. .
This at the same time that Elon Musk has played a strange strategy, where on the one hand he complains about Artificial Intelligence projects and calls for stopping industry projects for a long period of time.
At the same time, he was secretly creating his own company in that field, investing millions of dollars under an ambition that seems much more ambitious and extremist than OpenAI with ChatGPT: to create an AI that speaks with “the truth”.
And now it seems that the subject has found a potential source of new income: the court.
Why Elon Musk would sue Microsoft: how it all relates to Twitter and Artificial Intelligence
Actually, this whole mess is somewhat strange and disturbing in its implications. Since it seems that we are facing a story of spite and threat from Musk against his own clients?
It all started with an official publication by Microsoft, in its technical support websitewhere they announced that as of April 25, 2023, “Smart Campaigns with cross-platform will no longer be compatible with Twitter.”
Which would imply that users will no longer be able to access the following functions: Access your Twitter account through the social network management tool. Create and manage drafts or Tweets. See previous Tweets and their engagement. Schedule tweets.
Facebook, Instagram and all the other social networks that the suite supports will continue to work without any problem. So this is an extreme and unexpected announcement.
But most likely, Microsoft would have decided to close Twitter’s access to the wallet after the social network began charging companies for the use of its API.
So a reaction from Elon Musk was not long in coming, who suddenly accused Microsoft of illegally training its Artificial Intelligence products with data from Twitter:
They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 19, 2023
The puzzling point that has earned some criticism online is that Elon Musk not only reacted suddenly with this direct accusation, but also threatened to sue the company co-founded by Bill Gates.
Curiously, all after the company stopped giving you money for the use of its API.