Yet one more day, one more strange-sounding stuff coming in from Twitter’s new proprietor — Elon Musk. In a tweet, Musk has introduced that beginning April fifteenth, “solely verified accounts can be eligible to be in ‘For You’ suggestions”. He additionally feels, that “it’s okay” to have verified bot accounts impersonate people and are available up in that ‘For You’ timeline, so long as they comply with phrases of service.
In keeping with Musk, this appears to be the one “sensible option to tackle superior AI bot swarms taking on. It’s in any other case a hopeless shedding battle”.
Beginning April fifteenth, solely verified accounts can be eligible to be in For You suggestions.
The is the one sensible option to tackle superior AI bot swarms taking on. It’s in any other case a hopeless shedding battle.
Voting in polls would require verification for identical purpose.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 27, 2023
Off late, and specifically after twitter made these blue ticks accessible to all by way of a fee, a swarm of AI-powered bots, all with verified statuses, appear to have taken over the micro-blogging platform. A number of identified personalities have discovered their impersonated bots, with verified blue ticks, fooling customers to suppose it’s from the character they comply with. These bots are additionally getting used to extend follower counts drastically, and unfold misinformation.
Nonetheless, many really feel, that this newest dictat from Musk, might not likely resolve these points. Customers have in any case not appreciated the brand new ‘For You’ algorithmic timeline a lot, and with this new selections, there may be excessive probability of your feed being full of branded content material.
Musk additionally mentioned that going ahead solely verified accounts will be capable to participate in polls. Nonetheless, as is the case with most of his anouncements, there isn’t a readability on whether or not that is meant for polls created by Twitter (or him) or all polls on the platform.
