Elon Musk’s X Bans Access to ‘InfoFi’ Crypto Projects Amid ‘AI Slop’ Backlash

Elon Musk’s X Bans Access to ‘InfoFi’ Crypto Projects Amid ‘AI Slop’ Backlash

15 Jan Crypto News

Elon Musk’s X is taking action against projects that seek to financialize users’ attention on the platform using digital assets, Head of Product Nikita Bier declared on Thursday.

“We will no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X,” he said. “This has led to a tremendous amount of AI slop [and] reply spam on the platform.”

As part of the initiative, Bier said that X had revoked API access for so-called InfoFi projects, arguing that users’ experience on the platform “should start improving soon” as bots become aware that their activity is no longer generating income.

We are revising our developer API policies:

We will no longer allow apps that reward users for posting on X (aka “infofi”). This has led to…

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