Elon Musk wants to stop the bot problem by charging new X users a small fee to let them post on the social network.
Musk replied to an X account that wrote about changes to X’s website by saying that giving new accounts a small fee was the “only way” to stop the “onslaught of bots.”
Musk said that tools like CAPTCHA make it easy for AI and troll farms to get past the “are you a bot” test.
In response to another user, Musk later said that new accounts would not have to pay to post for three months after they were created.
Right now, there aren’t any specifics about when this policy will go into effect or what fees new users may have to pay. This is typical of a lot of news about the social platform.
In New Zealand and the Philippines, X began charging new users who were not verified $1 per year in October of last year. People from these places who signed up for the site for free could read the posts but not respond to them. They had to pay to be able to post, like, repost, comment, bookmark, and quote posts. Musk could charge a fee like in other places.
X said earlier this month that the platform would be getting rid of a lot of fake accounts and warned users that this could affect the number of followers they have. The social media company wants to do a better job of stopping bots, though, by planning to charge new users.
Musk has talked about fighting AI bots, and last year, X changed its rules so that public posts could be used to teach machine learning algorithms or AI models new things. Musk also said in July 2023 that public posts would be used to train models at his AI company, xAI.
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A few weeks ago, xAI made its Grok robot available to X Premium users who pay $8 a month. Users who paid $16 a month for the Premium+ tier could use the robot before. Fortune reported last week that X plans to let users use Grok to write posts.
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