Category: Platform Power

• The Twitter (X) Data-Mine for AI

  This theory claimed that Elon Musk bought Twitter not primarily for social media, politics, or advertising, but to harvest humanity’s collective thought-stream and use it to train a “God-AI.” In stronger versions, the platform’s posts, reactions, patterns, moods, and conflicts were framed as a large-scale map of the human collective unconscious. The documented record does support that Musk launched xAI in 2023, publicly said it would use public tweets to train its models, updated X’s privacy policy to allow collected and publicly available information to help train AI systems, and later integrated xAI and X more closely. What it does not support is the metaphysical claim that the acquisition was specifically aimed at extracting a collective unconscious or building a literal God-AI.