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This could be companies scraping Twitter to feed large language models. If so, I'm glad we're keeping Twitter out of the corpus for whatever the next GPT is
They cut off API access for anyone not willing to pay 45k a month, then are surprised when people use bots to scrape the site instead of using the API. So they then rate limit their users. Hilarious.
I think that is at least what Elon claims. Bots definitely can explode your site as many new lemmy admins have realized. That being said, Elon also bought the company knowing that so it's funny he thinks it's a problem now.