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Twitter owner Elon Musk announced that starting April 15, only verified accounts will be eligible to be on the "For You" recommendation, calling the move the only "realistic" way to deal with bots. “Starting April 15, only verified accounts will be eligible to appear in For You recommendations. This is the only realistic way to deal with the takeover of swarms of advanced AI robots. Otherwise, it's a losing battle. Voting in the polls will require verification for the same reason," Musk tweeted. It comes a day after the billionaire said paid social media accounts would be the only ones that matter, raising fears that modern artificial intelligence could respond to any test that asks the user to verify that they are not a robot. . ALSO READ: Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion five months ago. He says his value is now...
"Since modern AI can solve all the 'prove you're not a bot' tests, it's now trivial to launch 100,000 human-like bots for less than a penny per account. Paid verification is increasing the cost of bots in around 10,000% and makes it easier to identify bots by phone and CC grouping Obvious conclusion: paid social will be the only social networks that matter," the Twitter CEO tweeted yesterday. Social networks have announced that they will begin removing the Legacy Verified program and Legacy Verified verification marks. of user accounts as of April 1. Only paid subscribers and members of approved organizations will have the respective status." On April 1st, we will begin to cancel our legacy verification program and remove legacy verification checkmarks. To maintain your blue checkmark on Twitter, individuals can sign up for Twitter Blue and organizations can sign up for verified organizations," Twitter said in a tweet.
Individual users who pay for Twitter Blue will have verified ticks. For businesses, the social platform has introduced a gold badge and government accounts will have a gray mark.
