“Temporary emergency” should always be considered skeptically - especially when it comes to government. They almost always stay permanent.
I'm fine with the criticism, but what's the solution? And what makes this a uniquely Elon problem when the rest of the social media industry does the same? There was backlash when the models learned computer programming from open source repositories, so I wonder if the same applies to casual speech.
Because it worked without an account before Elon came to Twitter and changed it?
Would've happened either way. Data is more valuable and also trivial to scrape now.
Which is the root of the problem - that we have allowed companies to claim ownership over and sell their user's data.
Usenet worked without any antispam, until the first spammer appeared.
That's when the LLM labs emerged and started collecting the data en masse. Likewise, virtually all other major social media players added barriers to unfettered anonymous access. Reddit worked without an account, and with multiple alternative client apps, until spez changed it, right?