Elon Musk is planning to cost new X customers a small charge to allow posting on the social community and to curb the bot drawback.
In reply to an X account that posted about modifications on X’s web site, Musk stated charging a small charge to new accounts was the “solely approach” to cease the “onslaught of bots”
“Present AI (and troll farms) can move “are you a bot” with ease,” Musk stated, referring to instruments like CAPTCHA.
Whereas replying to a different person, Musk later added that new accounts would have the ability to publish after three months of creation with out paying a charge.
As is the case with a variety of bulletins associated to the social platform, there are not any particulars in the meanwhile about when this coverage shall be relevant and what charges new customers may need to pay.
Final October, X began charging new unverified customers $1 per 12 months in New Zealand and the Philippines. New free customers signing up for the platform from these areas may learn the posts however couldn’t work together with them. To publish content material, like, repost, reply, bookmark, and quote posts, they needed to pay a charge. Musk would possibly apply a charge just like different areas.
Earlier this month, X stated that the platform was beginning a significant purge of spam accounts, warning customers that their follower depend may be affected. Nonetheless, with a plan to cost new customers, the social media firm seemingly goals to sort out the bot drawback higher.
Whereas Musk has talked about battling AI bots, final 12 months, X up to date its coverage to incorporate a clause that public posts may very well be used to coach machine studying algorithms or synthetic intelligence fashions. Individually, in July 2023, Musk stated that his AI firm xAI would use public posts to coach fashions.
Earlier this month, xAI made its Grok chatbot accessible to Premium customers of X, who pay $8 per thirty days. The chatbot was beforehand accessible to customers paying $16 per thirty days for the Premium+ tier. Final week, Fortune reported that X plans to make Grok accessible to customers to compose posts.
