Twitter has alleged that Microsoft violated an settlement over utilizing the social media firm’s information, in line with a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday. Twitter proprietor Elon Musk’s lawyer leveled accusations of “unauthorized” utilization of Twitter’s information by Microsoft, together with sharing information with authorities businesses with out permission in some instances.
Within the letter addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro requested the tech big to conduct an audit of its use of Twitter’s content material. The letter was first reported by the New York Instances.
Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters’ request for remark.
As per Twitter’s settlement, the social media firm enforces price limits on use of its software programming interface (API) for all builders.
“Regardless of these limitations, the Microsoft Apps accessed Twitter’s APIs over 780 million occasions and retrieved over 26 billion tweets in 2022 alone”, the letter stated.
A Microsoft spokesperson stated the corporate on Thursday heard from a regulation agency representing Twitter with some questions on its earlier use of the free Twitter APIs.
“We’ll assessment these questions and reply appropriately. We look ahead to persevering with our long run partnership with the corporate,” the spokesperson stated.
Twitter’s accusations come at a time when Elon Musk is at odds with Microsoft over its synthetic intelligence platform.
Musk stated in April he’ll launch AI platform “TruthGPT” to problem the choices from Microsoft and Google.
He has criticized Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the agency behind chatbot sensation ChatGPT, of “coaching the AI to lie” and stated OpenAI has now change into a “closed supply”, “for-profit” group that’s “intently allied with Microsoft”.
He has additionally accused Larry Web page, co-founder of Google, of not taking AI security severely.
© Thomson Reuters 2023
