Elon Musk suggested on Monday that X, formerly known as Twitter, will consider charging a “small monthly” subscription fee to “combat vast armies of bots.”
During a livestream conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Musk was asked how he plans to remove bots from the social media platform. Musk replied that implementing a subscription fee might be the only practical solution, particularly as artificial intelligence bots become more advanced.
“This is actually a super tough problem,” Musk stated. “The single most important reason that we’re moving to having a small monthly payment for use of the X system is, it’s the only way I could think of to combat vast armies of bots.”
“If somebody even has to pay a few dollars or something, some minor amount, the effective cost of bots is very high and then you also have to get a new payment method every time you have a new bot,” he continued.
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