Paul James Joseph Watson's take is that unlimited access to Twitter ending prevents the kind data scraping needed for comprehensive AI analysis and real-time narrative control.
I don't think he's wrong. The idea of government backdoors more or less negates PJW's optimistic take.
I also think there are going to be a host of unintended consequences, but the blue bird deserves a good throttling.
It might disrupt corrupt governments like those in the US and Europe spying on their peoples though. However, I'm pretty sure Twitter has a backdoor for them, because otherwise they'd shut it down.
It might disrupt corrupt governments like those in the US and Europe spying on their peoples though. However, I'm pretty sure Twitter has a backdoor for them, because otherwise they'd shut it down.
I find the idea of there being a backdoor quite likely. That would mean PJW is off-base by virtue of the government still having direct access.
I also suspect Elon might be trying to drive the AI farms to negotiate payments for scraping rights than anything else. Twitter's data would be extremely valuable fodder for training Large Language Models, and Elon probably wants a cut. Cutting Google services out of the loop would be part of this, since if they're providing cloud services, they are in a position to demand payment from Twitter for hosting the very data set they're sampling.
No matter how you cut it, user convenience will be a casualty. Not that it matters: the users are the product-- not the customers.
If Elon goes all the way with paywalling the site, the users will be both the product and the customers. Reddit and YouTube seem intent on following the same model.
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JamesJoseph Watson's take is that unlimited access to Twitter ending prevents the kind data scraping needed for comprehensive AI analysis and real-time narrative control.I don't think he's wrong.The idea of government backdoors more or less negates PJW's optimistic take.I also think there are going to be a host of unintended consequences, but the blue bird deserves a good throttling.
He is very wrong. This is Q-tier nonsense.
It might disrupt corrupt governments like those in the US and Europe spying on their peoples though. However, I'm pretty sure Twitter has a backdoor for them, because otherwise they'd shut it down.
I find the idea of there being a backdoor quite likely. That would mean PJW is off-base by virtue of the government still having direct access.
I also suspect Elon might be trying to drive the AI farms to negotiate payments for scraping rights than anything else. Twitter's data would be extremely valuable fodder for training Large Language Models, and Elon probably wants a cut. Cutting Google services out of the loop would be part of this, since if they're providing cloud services, they are in a position to demand payment from Twitter for hosting the very data set they're sampling.
No matter how you cut it, user convenience will be a casualty. Not that it matters: the users are the product-- not the customers.
If Elon goes all the way with paywalling the site, the users will be both the product and the customers. Reddit and YouTube seem intent on following the same model.