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ooli@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Elon Musk’s ironic bot army exposed

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Elon Musk’s ironic bot army exposed

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ooli@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Bluesky users are roasting Elon Musk for his blue-checked bot army of fake Xitheads. Musk famously complained...
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    this is the funnniest thing since he was forced to buy it. accidentally outing his own bots because billioonaire cant pay his bills.

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    Ironic call out of ai bots when using AI generated trash images like that.

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      it’s what elon deserves though. i don’t want to see an actual picture of his ugly face.

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    Great to hear. Preferably from a more neutral source next time. Hard to take it at their word when it’s so editorialized and filled w/ name-calling. And I say this as someone who probably would end up on a watch list if I gave my personal opinion of Elon

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      I agree , the source is doubtfull. And about Musk… we should cut his head without ceremony and ditch it in a sewer… I think there is a lot of us on that watchlist

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      Impossible nowadays to get unbiased news. For instance, despite Reuters excellence in journalism awards, people still love sharing their Daily Mail and Mother Jones.

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        Just read the news from the Reuters app directly, problem solved

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    Is that entire site just ai generated garbage now?

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    He could stand in the middle of fifth avenune and shoot a guy in the face and the bots would never leave Xitter

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      deleted by creator

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    This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

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      Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

      This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

      Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

      I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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      In fairness, this is not a new danger. Koch media affiliates have been doing this for decades.

      It’s still absolutely dangerous, just didn’t need AI to be so.

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    Is the “X” in “Xitheads” pronounced like “xzitheads” or like “jhitheads”?

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      I naturally assumed zitheads or shitheads, given the standard pronunciation of ‘x’ in words…

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        The best part is, it all works, because it all sounds stupid!

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          It all is stupid.

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      Szhitheads

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      I usually pronounce ‘x’ as an ‘sh’ like the native Mexican language of Nahuatl.

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        Also like the X in Pinyin (eg. “Chairman Xi”)

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      Shitheads.

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    Wouldn’t surprise me if the calls were coming from inside. What’s Twitter’s Grok chatbot used for these days?

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    Bryce?

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