Musk claims that the move is “the only realistic way to approach controlling swarms of advanced AI bots.” Verified users will also become the only accounts that can vote in polls for “the same reason,” Musk says.
It’s worth taking this announcement with a grain of salt, as Musk’s tweets haven’t always become policies or features enforced. Perhaps the biggest example is his February promise that the company would start sharing ad revenue with Blue subscribers, something that remains unfulfilled nearly two months later. That same month, the also promised open the company’s algorithm before March 5, which hasn’t happened yet, though now he says it will happen on March 31, without acknowledging the previously missed deadline.
Musk has made similar promises in the past. Before you drop the charade of supposedly asking the community before making major changes to the service, he said that Twitter would only allow blue subscribers to vote in political polls. It’s a bit moot now that it’s not doing that anymore though.
