• michaelrose@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Why would you think access to Twitter users nonsense is in any way an improvement over existing training data let alone enough make spending tens of billions for Twitter a good deal. He bought it because he said stupid shit and when he thought he could back out they were suing him to uphold the deal he made to buy it and they were going to win.

    • VirtualAlias@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      I don’t know, I think he was trying to get the price down because why pay more than you have to?

      Also, I think a decade’s-worth of notable human discourse in discreet packets of n-characters in an already hierarchical organization paired with deep demographic metadata could be seriously valuable.