Lauren WeinsteinOne gets the feeling that all these limits Musk is suddenly throwing on #Twitter have a lot less to do with data scraping per se and much more to do with trying to run the entire operation on a dozen Raspberry Pis to save money.
Dan Sugalski@lauren I suspect he’s seeing the huge amount of traffic hitting Twitter and badly misdiagnosing what’s going on. (They have apparently rolled out a very bad release and are DDOSing themselves, according to some folks who are watching their browser devtools and laughing)
@wordshaper Oh, I'm not kidding about it being an excuse. I don't for a minute buy his "hundreds of AI companies are suddenly scraping us blind!" claim. On the other hand, as you know, I am very concerned about the unfettered use of website data for GAI without much or anything being given in return.
@lauren it is certainly true that multiple stupid things can be happening simultaneously :)