2y ago

Elon Musk’s ironic bot army exposed

boingboing.net

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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.
- He's attempting to make money by increasing the value of twitter to advertisers by using bots.
  The fact that the bots are poorly implemented is icing on the cake
I am here to profess my eternal and undying love for this description
Xitter, the steaming remains of Twitter
- Petition to refer to it as Xitter from now on.
- Idk... I feel calling it steaming... When clearly is ash and smoke... and some bird bones, feels too good.
  
  It's steaming because the X is pronounced "sh", so it's a steaming pile of Xit.
Ironic call out of ai bots when using AI generated trash images like that.
- it's what elon deserves though. i don't want to see an actual picture of his ugly face.
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
- 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
- Impossible nowadays to get unbiased news. For instance, despite Reuters excellence in journalism awards, people still love sharing their Daily Mail and Mother Jones.
  
  Just read the news from the Reuters app directly, problem solved
Is that entire site just ai generated garbage now?
- well the artwork undeniably is.
  but the point stands: obvious Xitter bot army is obvious.
He could stand in the middle of fifth avenune and shoot a guy in the face and the bots would never leave Xitter
- 'twas the point: They'd never leave
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy
- 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.
- 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.
Wouldn’t surprise me if the calls were coming from inside. What’s Twitter’s Grok chatbot used for these days?
Bryce?

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