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by serf 857 days ago
>You want to use twitter no account in the age of AI. It don’t work like that anymore

how does having an account to view twitter meaningfully change anything during this mystick time of AI?

If it's to prevent AIs from reading twitter threads, well, good luck.

>It don’t work like that anymore

well if a company doesn't follow customer demand they fail; I don't intend to continue using a service that requires me to have an account to lurk -- i'm not the only one. The rules for customer service don't somehow just get cast away because of magic software.

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> how does having an account to view twitter meaningfully change anything during this mystick time of AI?

> If it's to prevent AIs from reading twitter threads, well, good luck.

If you require an account, it’s harder to scrape you and train an AI for free using platform you've build with your own investment and effort. Until court rule in favor of copyright holders, welcome to the future where nothing is shared in the open anymore.

I'm curious who you consider that rights holder to be.
The creator.
I asked because it sounded as if you considered it to be the platform. And let's not kid ourselves by pretending that this has to do with protecting the creators.
No, it’s simply that if it’s a violation against the creator, then the platform by extension doesn’t get hammered.

By the way, you know for legal purposes those creators (copyright holders) also include guys like Disney, Warner Bros, Penguin et al. right?