[velavar]

> Musk — who is no longer CEO of Twitter, but still deeply involved in operations — may also be motivated by a desire to prevent AI tools from searching Twitter.

This seems very unlikely. If they really just wanted to stop just AI tools from searching twitter, it would be very easy to prevent them from doing it at scale by imposing basic rate limiting and device intelligence (or even something like the puzzle LinkedIn makes you solve before viewing someone's profile while not logged in).

I'm very confused as to why they may not want unlogged-in human lurkers who are still seeing and clicking on ads when on the Twitter website.

[Terr_]

> This seems very unlikely. If they really just wanted to stop just AI tools

Same issue with Reddit, it's a false excuse for embarking on some other kind of cash-grab policy.

They claimed the almost-no-warning API changes were necessary to stop the "AI", except that all the big (and therefore significant) actors could have been stopped by a change to the terms of service or some modest rate-limits.