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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Xiao Zhan for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, April 20 (Xinhua)-- Microsoft has announced that it will stop supporting Twitter on its smart advertising platform, causing dissatisfaction with Twitter CEO Elon Musk. Musk threatened to sue Microsoft, accusing it of illegally using Twitter data to train its artificial intelligence program and demanding compensation.

Microsoft quietly announced the decision, but did not say why. However, there are reports that Twitter wants to charge third-party apps exorbitant fees to access Twitter's application programming interface (API), a tool that allows third-party apps to interact with social media services. The fees required by Twitter range from $42000 to $210000 per month (CTOnews.com Note: currently about 289000 to 1.445 million yuan).

Microsoft seems unwilling to pay the fee, so it decided to stop providing support for Twitter on its smart advertising platform after April 25. This means that Microsoft advertisers will not be able to access their Twitter accounts or create and post tweets through the smart advertising platform.

Musk tweeted: "they (Microsoft) illegally used Twitter data for training." it's time to sue them. " Musk did not provide any evidence to support his allegations, although some artificial intelligence programs, such as ChatGPT, do use public Internet data, such as Wikipedia articles, for training.

Musk's comments came as Reddit, another social media platform, announced plans to charge API visitors on the grounds that Reddit user-generated data was used to train artificial intelligence models.

There are other conflicts between Musk and Microsoft. Microsoft has become the main partner of OpenAI, and OpenAI is the company behind ChatGPT. Although Musk was once one of the founders of OpenAI, he has since criticized the San Francisco-based lab as a "closed-source, profitable company actually controlled by Microsoft".

At the same time, he criticized ChatGPT for spreading misinformation, and Musk said he planned to use his artificial intelligence chat robot program, TruthGPT, against OpenAI and Microsoft.

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