Twitter owner Elon Musk has proposed introducing a small fee for the right to publish the first post for new users, according to Elon Musk’s Twitter. According to him, this could solve the problem of a large number of bots and trolls on the social network. He also noted that modern AI bots easily bypass built-in checks designed to determine whether a human or AI is using the account. “Unfortunately, a small fee for new user write access is the only way to curb the relentless onslaught of bots,” Musk wrote. In October 2023, the social network already introduced a fee for new unverified users fr…