For new X users
Musk now wants to collect money for postings
Elon Musk now wants to introduce a new measure in the fight against automated bot accounts: Every new user on the short message platform X (formerly Twitter) is to pay for postings in the first three months.
This is the only way to curb the activity of automated bot accounts, the US billionaire wrote on X on Monday. It is a "tiny amount", he emphasized, without giving a figure. After three months on X, new users should be allowed to publish for free, he added.
Common tests now powerless against AI programs
Before the takeover of Twitter in October 2022, Musk had repeatedly denounced the fact that there were too many automated bot profiles on the service. He promised to get the problem under control. Current AI programs could easily pass the standard tests designed to expose bot accounts, Musk now complained.
Payment system already tested in two countries
X has been testing the latest countermeasure since the fall. Initially in New Zealand and the Philippines, new users of the service were only able to publish posts and quote or redistribute posts from others for a fee of one US dollar per year. They could only use X passively for free: Read posts, watch videos, follow other users.
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