Twitter owner Elon Musk's lawyer leveled accusations of
"unauthorized" usage of Twitter's data by Microsoft, including
sharing data with government agencies without permission in some cases.
In the letter addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella,
Musk's lawyer Alex Spiro asked the tech giant to conduct an audit of its use of
Twitter's content. The letter was first reported by the New York Times.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request
for comment.
As per Twitter's agreement, the social media company
enforces rate limits on use of its application programming interface (API) for
all developers.
"Despite these limitations, the Microsoft Apps accessed
Twitter's APIs over 780 million times and retrieved over 26 billion tweets in
2022 alone", the letter said.
A Microsoft spokesperson said the company on Thursday heard
from a law firm representing Twitter with some questions about its previous use
of the free Twitter APIs.
"We will review these questions and respond
appropriately. We look forward to continuing our long term partnership with the
company," the spokesperson said.
Twitter's accusations come at a time when Elon Musk is at odds
with Microsoft over its artificial intelligence platform.
Musk said in April he will launch AI platform
"TruthGPT" to challenge the offerings from Microsoft and Google.
He has criticized Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the firm behind
chatbot sensation ChatGPT, of "training the AI to lie" and said
OpenAI has now become a "closed source", "for-profit"
organization that is "closely allied with Microsoft".
He has also accused Larry Page, co-founder of Google, of not
taking AI safety seriously. © Reuters
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