Elon Musk is planning to cost new X customers a small price to allow posting on the social community and to curb the bot drawback.
In reply to an X account that posted about adjustments on X’s web site, Musk mentioned charging a small price to new accounts was the “solely approach” to cease the “onslaught of bots.”
“Present AI (and troll farms) can move ‘are you a bot’ with ease,” Musk mentioned, referring to instruments like CAPTCHA.
Whereas replying to a different consumer, Musk later added that new accounts would be capable of publish after three months of creation with out paying a price.
As is the case with a whole lot of bulletins associated to the social platform, there aren’t any particulars in the meanwhile about when this coverage will likely be relevant and what charges new customers may need to pay.
Final October, X began charging new unverified customers $1 per year in New Zealand and the Philippines. New free customers signing up for the platform from these areas may learn the posts however couldn’t work together with them. To publish content material, like, repost, reply, bookmark and quote posts, they needed to pay a price. Musk would possibly apply a price just like different areas.
Earlier this month, X mentioned that the platform was starting a major purge of spam accounts, warning customers that their follower rely may be affected. Nonetheless, with a plan to cost new customers, the social media firm seemingly goals to deal with the bot drawback higher.
Whereas Musk has talked about battling AI bots, final 12 months, X updated its policy to incorporate a clause that public posts could possibly be used to coach machine studying algorithms or synthetic intelligence fashions. Individually, in July 2023, Musk mentioned that his AI firm xAI would use public posts to train models.
Earlier this month, xAI made its Grok chatbot accessible to Premium users of X, who pay $8 per 30 days. The chatbot was beforehand accessible to customers paying $16 per 30 days for the Premium+ tier. Final week, Fortune reported that X plans to make Grok accessible to customers to compose posts.
