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Who's training an AI on the "Tweet" button text?

Or are they trying to forgo section 230 protection and claim ownership of content uploaded to the site?

These are just terms of service, not copyright.

It means that assuming training AI models is fair use (if it wasn't AI companies including xAI would be in trouble), they can't really stop you.

But now, essentially, they are telling you that they can block your account or IP address if you do. Which I believe they can for basically any reason anyways.

How would they know you’re training some LLM though?

Perhaps they want the prohibition on using the site content for AI training to be considered based on something other than their ownership of it, like bandwidth usage or users' rights

They will get paid to share our (your) data and they will use the money for infra and new yachts.

Indeed, but I'm speculating that they do that without owning the data or even claiming to. That's consistent with the article, but I haven't read the other relevant documents. Maybe they have a license to use the data. Maybe the license allows or requires them to try to restrict others' AI training, regardless of their non-ownership of it. Maybe that serves multiple purposes, in which case they could point to whichever shows them in the best light.

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