Global Courant 2023-04-20 04:38:16
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Twitter CEO Elon Musk threatened to sue Microsoft on Wednesday accused the software giant of illegally using the social media company’s data to train its artificial intelligence model.
Musk’s tweet threat came after Mashable and other publications reported That Microsoft would remove Twitter from its ad platform, which allows ad buyers to manage all their social media accounts in one place.
“They illegally trained using Twitter data,” Musk tweeted. “Time for trial.”
Musk, also CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, often tweet about plans never materializing, and no lawsuit appears to have been filed. Twitter’s press line did not respond meaningfully to a request for comment, and a Microsoft representative declined to comment.
Musk’s threat is the latest indication that data ownership is fast becoming a fraught battleground in the generative AI rush. Big tech companies are working to develop advanced AI models like OpenAI’s GPT, and data owners are trying to hold them back or charge them for using their content.
Microsoft develops its own so-called large language models (LLMs) and sells access to OpenAI’s models. Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI last year in an unusually structured deal. Musk co-founded OpenAI before leaving the board in 2018, and has recently lamented the company’s transition from a non-profit model to a highly valuable company influenced by Microsoft.
LLMs like GPT require terabytes of data for training, much of which is scraped from websites like Reddit, StackOverflow, and Twitter. Training data from social networks is valuable because it captures casual back-and-forth conversations.
As these new AI models move from research labs and universities to the corporate world, data owners are starting to make demands.
For example, Reddit said it did earlier this week cost companies for access to the programming interface used to conduct the conversations between Redditors in AI training software. Universal Music Group too said this week that such training of artists’ music would be “both a violation of our agreements and a violation of copyright law” in response to a viral video of a song that claimed to use AI to impersonate the rapper Drake.
And stock photo bank Getty Images is suing Stable Diffusionclaiming that the company copied its content to train its AI image generator.
Musk said in December that Twitter would “pause” OpenAI’s access to its database. He has also announced plans to build his own large language model in one of his companies called TruthGPT.
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