Day: July 3, 2023

Elon Musk imposes ‘rate limit’ on Twitter, citing extreme ‘system manipulation’

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Social media platform Twitter is temporarily limiting the number of posts users will be allowed to read daily after seeing “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation,” according to executive chairman Elon Musk. In a July 1 post, Musk said the temporary limits would see verified accounts capped at 10,000 posts per day, while unverified and new unverified accounts are capped at 1,000 and 500 posts per day, respectively: Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023 Twitter users have been reporting issues on…

Elon Musk imposes ‘rate limit’ on Twitter citing extreme ‘system manipulation’

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Social media platform Twitter is temporarily limiting the number of posts that users will be allowed to read per day, after seeing “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation,” according to executive chairman Elon Musk. In a July 1 post, Musk said the temporary limits will see verified accounts capped at 10,000 posts per day, while unverified and new, unverified accounts are capped at 1,000 and 500 posts per day respectively: Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023 Twitter users had been reporting…

AI-generated fake news sparks rumors of Gary Gensler’s resignation

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False rumors have again been spreading over the resignation of United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler — this time, however, artificial intelligence has seemingly played a part. On July 1, a news story appeared on a website dubbed “thecryptoalert.com” claiming that SEC chair Gary Gensler had “submitted his resignation following an internal investigation,” citing an anonymous official. However, Cointelegraph found the article’s text scores high on third-party AI-detector ZeroGPT, scoring 96.8%, signaling a high degree of AI text generation. The website also appears to be very…