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User reports X throttling data collection for AI use

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The user describes their experience with data collection on X (formerly Twitter) in 2023, noting that their access was throttled despite collecting data at a human pace. They suggest that X has become a "milking machine" for AI, specifically mentioning Grok, and that the data collected is anonymized and a limited subset. AI

IMPACT Suggests platforms may be limiting data access for AI training.

RANK_REASON User opinion on platform behavior related to AI data collection, not a verifiable event.

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User reports X throttling data collection for AI use

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COVERAGE [1]

  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · silentexception ·

    This is Twitter 2023. I was doing visual dataset art back then with panda for fun. Suddenly, Twitter became X, then then chatgpt, then they started to throttle

    This is Twitter 2023. I was doing visual dataset art back then with panda for fun. Suddenly, Twitter became X, then then chatgpt, then they started to throttle web access. This data was collected with my standard account at a human pace on public data. Nevertheless, throttled as …

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