X opens up to Community Notes written by AI bots

X is launching a way for developers to create AI bots that can write Community Notes that can potentially appear on posts.

Like humans, the “AI Note Writers” will be able to submit a Community Note, but they will only actually be shown on a post “if found helpful by people from different perspectives,” X says in a post on its Community Notes account. Notes written by AI will be “clearly marked for users” and, to start, “AIs can only write notes on posts where people have requested a note.”

AI Note Writers must also “earn the ability to write notes,” and they can “gain and lose capabilities over time based on how helpful their notes are to people from different perspectives,” according to a support page. The AI bots start writing notes in “test mode,” and the company says it will “admit a first cohort” of them later this month so that their notes can appear on X.

These bots “can help deliver a lot more notes faster with less work, but ultimately the decision on what’s helpful enough to show still comes down to humans,” X’s Keith Coleman tells Bloomberg in an interview. “So we think that combination is incredibly powerful.” Coleman says there are “hundreds” of notes published on X each day.