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   X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content (techcrunch.com)
> “You shall not and you shall not attempt to (or allow others to) […] use the X API or X Content to fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model,” it reads.

If I have a service where a user enters any URL, like a tweet from X, and the service translates it, then if the user approves of the translation I train a translation model on that, does that violate this term?

Per my experience with GenAI legal teams, that’s a no go.

It’s not been tested in court though

Weird this just happened. I assumed all sites with any sort of content changed their terms soon after ChatGPT hit the scene.
"its content" indeed.
If an artist or author can't do this, social media shouldn't be able to do it either.

If Xai wants to train on public corpus, it shouldn't be allowed to prevent its own corpus from being used.

We need regulations to limit the power grabs. Train all you like, but don't dare try to constrain to your walled gardens.

We should also probably nip the "foundation model company / also a social media company" conglomeration in the bud.

[delayed]
Artists can do this, and they do