{"id":38779,"date":"2023-02-06T22:41:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T22:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/elon-promises-a-free-api-for-good-bot-content-again-demonstrating-he-has-no-idea-how-any-of-this-works\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T22:43:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T22:43:10","slug":"elon-promises-a-free-api-for-good-bot-content-again-demonstrating-he-has-no-idea-how-any-of-this-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/elon-promises-a-free-api-for-good-bot-content-again-demonstrating-he-has-no-idea-how-any-of-this-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Promises A Free API For \u2018Good Bot Content,\u2019 Again, Demonstrating He Has No Idea How Any Of This Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the whims-are-not-policy<\/i> dept<\/h3>\n

It\u2019s been clear because the takeover, that Elon\u2019s working Twitter completely based mostly on his fleeting and oft-changing whims<\/a>. The bizarre choice final week to immediately, with one week\u2019s discover, remove the free tier<\/a> for Twitter\u2019s primary API, has create a little bit of an uproar, as tons of instruments, providers, and helpful<\/em> bots made use of it. Many have been posting farewell messages on Twitter, main Musk (as he appears to do all too typically) to announce a coverage change in a reply tweet<\/em>. He did this when he rolled again his bizarrely silly coverage that you just had been no longer allowed to link to other social media<\/a> (a coverage so clearly silly, that solely Musk\u2019s mom would defend it). Musk rolled that one again in a reply tweet \u2014 which means a tweet that only a few folks would see, as a result of they don\u2019t present up practically as a lot.<\/p>\n

Right here, Musk responded to a tweet from the automated @PepitoTheCat account, which identified his account must be shut down beneath this new coverage. The brand new coverage, based on Musk on this reply tweet (which bought many fewer views that his common tweets) is that:<\/p>\n

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I suppose we might give all Verified customers entry to the API for posts like this<\/em><\/p>\n

Responding to suggestions, Twitter will allow a lightweight, write-only API for bots offering good content material that’s free<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Actually.<\/p>\n

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So\u2026 the coverage is perhaps that \u201call verified customers\u201d get entry to the API\u2026 however just for \u201cposts like this.\u201d Or\u2026 it may very well be {that a} \u201cwrite-only API\u201d (don\u2019t even get me began on how nonsensical that<\/em> is) for \u201cbots offering good content material that’s free.\u201d<\/p>\n

The purpose is: these will not be insurance policies. These are mind fart whims. That is no option to run a enterprise with many tens of millions of customers.<\/p>\n

After all, it\u2019s paying homage to the naivety that Musk has demonstrated about all of this earlier than. Like when he declared that content material moderation was easy: you simply delete the \u201cflawed and unhealthy\u201d stuff, and assist the \u201cgood\u201d content material.<\/p>\n

Okay, genius: outline \u201cgood.\u201d Outline \u201cgood\u201d in a way that your stay group of flying monkeys can put it into apply with out having to continually seek the advice of your tweet replies to see in the event that they\u2019re doing it proper.<\/p>\n

The method of content material moderation on a reliable belief & security group entails crafting a coverage that may be understood by the group answerable for carrying it out. Creating a very distinctive coverage could be one that almost all customers can perceive.<\/p>\n

None of that’s taking place right here. Musk\u2019s random \u201ceffectively, if it\u2019s good\u201d they will get some kind of bizarre sorta API entry just isn’t fixing something. That is what good belief & security groups truly do, and what they\u2019re expert at doing. It\u2019s a relentless problem, after all, as a result of as you write insurance policies, you\u2019ll continually be working up towards exceptions and issues that problem the insurance policies. However saying \u201cmake an exception for \u2018good\u2019 bots\u201d is worse than ineffective.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s merely reinforcing simply how dangerous and ridiculous it’s for anybody to construct something that depends on Twitter in the present day. Who is aware of what nonsense will come from a random reply Tweet to a cat meme tomorrow?<\/p>\n

In the meantime, I\u2019ll simply observe that over the weekend, I found three new providers being constructed on the Mastodon API which might be changing issues I used to make use of Twitter for. Certainly one of which, FeedSeer<\/a>, is principally identical to TweetShelf, an unimaginable Twitter software that appears prone to must shut down thanks to those adjustments.<\/p>\n

\nFiled Below: api<\/a>, bots<\/a>, content moderation<\/a>, elon musk<\/a>, good content<\/a>
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