Elon Musk Threatens Microsoft Lawsuit over LLM Training Data and API Abandonment

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20 points·TobyTheDog123··6 comments

Sort of funny that Elon found out it had a deal with MSFT for API access via some random tweet.

Other CEOs that buy companies will often ask the staff something like "give me a list of the top 50 accounts we have deals with" (measured by dollars or volume or company size.) You know... so they know who they have deals with.

Considering how much of the staff he gutted, there legitimately might not be anyone left who can answer those kinds of questions.

I mean bullying your customer's and advertisers is a business plan I just question it's success. I don't know that threatening Microsoft with a lawsuit is going to get them quaking in their boots. It's kind of their side business after software for last 40 years.

Even reddit is starting to charge for API usage and not allow corps to scrape data.

I think most corps have no scraping clauses in their API user agreement.

I wonder how the big datasets are going to give some corps advantages, Google with youtube video transcriptions, Facebook with their posts and instagram posts, etc.

I like the way Reddit structured that EULA tho. If you make apps to improve and/or give back to reddit or for academic research, you are good. If you are scrapping their data and exploiting their user base to train your AI, fork up for access to the data set.

As a near constant user of reddit for almost a decade, in general their monetization and the way they treat their users is far better than Meta, Twitter, etc.

I hope Musk does not start suing anyone who out competes his companies.

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