After reports emerged that Microsoft planned to remove Twitter from its advertising platform, Elon Musk threatened to sue the company for using Twitter data for its artificial intelligence.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk threatened to sue Microsoft on Wednesday, accusing the software giant of illegally using the social media company’s data to train its artificial intelligence model.
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.
“They trained illegally using Twitter data,” Musk tweeted. “Lawsuit time.”
LLMs like GPT require terabytes of data for training, much of which is scraped from websites like Reddit, StackOverflow, and Twitter. Training data from social networks is valuable because it captures informal, back-and-forth conversations.
The Italian National Authority for Personal Data Protection has announced that Italy has banned OpenAI’s ChatGPT over privacy concerns.