X has revised its developer agreement, introducing a new clause that prohibits the use of posts from its platform for training artificial intelligence. According to the updated policy, which was previously highlighted by TechCrunch, developers are not allowed to utilize content from X or its application programming interface (API) to “fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model.”
This modification in policy could position X to engage in AI training agreements with external companies, akin to the arrangement Reddit formed with Google. Reddit has enacted a similar prohibition against AI crawlers and has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging that the company’s crawlers illegally accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times since July 2024. Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI, purchased X for an estimated $33 billion in March.
While X’s developer agreement prohibits the training of AI on its content, the platform’s privacy policy remains unchanged, indicating that third-party “collaborators” may still train AI models using data from the site unless users opt out of this arrangement. Furthermore, X incorporates user data into its AI model, known as Grok, for training purposes.
