X‘s new developer agreement restricts AI companies from using its content to train their models, signaling a strategic positioning in the growing market for licensed AI training data. This move aligns with recent industry trends toward monetizing platform content through exclusive AI training partnerships, as demonstrated by Reddit‘s Google deal and subsequent lawsuit against Anthropic for unauthorized data scraping.
The big picture: X has updated its developer policy to explicitly prohibit using content from the platform to “fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model,” creating potential opportunities for exclusive AI training deals.
Strategic implications: The policy change positions X to potentially monetize its data through exclusive partnerships similar to Reddit’s arrangement with Google.
Ownership context: Elon Musk‘s AI company xAI acquired X for $33 billion in March, creating an interesting dynamic in how the platform approaches AI data access.