Musk Pushes for Twitter Engineers to Add AI Assistant to Tweets, Despite Spam and Quality Concerns
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Elon Musk wants engineers at Twitter to add Twitter's Grok AI chatbot to the tweet composition box for Twitter Blue subscribers. He believes it will help people "sound smarter."
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There are concerns about Grok's ability to improve tweet quality given Twitter's history of low-quality posts, and the risk it could increase spam. Engineers are allegedly stalling on implementing Musk's request.
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Grok recently pushed fake news and inappropriate content to Twitter's trending topics section, showing its limitations.
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Allowing AI assistance in tweet composition isn't very novel - features like Gmail's Smart Compose already exist. But some believe creativity and authenticity could be hindered by AI input.
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There's uncertainty around Twitter's ability to handle increased spam if Grok tweet assistance is implemented. The Grok Twitter account poked fun at Twitter's spam problem after Musk said Grok would be open-sourced.