Microsoft is under threat of a lawsuit from Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk, who claims the big tech company "illegally" trained its artificial intelligence on Twitter data. On April 19, Musk tweeted that it was "law time" in response to a post that reported that Microsoft would stop supporting Twitter's online social advertising tools, Smart Campaigns and Multi-platform on April 25.
The Twitter boss has accused Microsoft of "illegally using Twitter data for training," suggesting the company mines user tweets to help train its artificial intelligence applications.
According to a March report from Wired magazine, while Twitter's API fees have skyrocketed from $0 to $42,000 a month, and in some cases priced as high as $200,000 a month, Microsoft hasn't explained why. To gradually reduce support for Twitter. Musk further accused Microsoft of "demonetizing Twitter data" by removing ads and "then selling our data to other people."
Microsoft's decision to ditch Twitter means its customers will lose access to their Twitter accounts through its tools, in addition to being able to create, manage, view and schedule tweets. Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn are still available to Microsoft customers, its website says. Microsoft's decision comes months after Twitter stopped providing free access to the Twitter API for versions 1.1 and 2. The software company is now reportedly developing its own AI chip to power ChatGPT in response to rising development costs both internally and with the OpenAI project.
With a valuation of $2.15 trillion, Microsoft is the second-largest company in the world by market capitalization after Apple Inc, according to Google Finance.
