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Breaking news: A pic of the alleged perpetrator has surfaced.
this post was submitted on 16 May 2025
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Who's this low-t dweeb? Surely Elon would never hire this guy.
We're all trying to find the guy who did this
"That guy's dressed as a hotdog!"
Points at the intern nearest the server rack
"No I'm n-"
Elon looking for the unauthorized person
It was 100% Elmo
Whoever did it had an investor's level knowledge of what AI is and what it can do. He doesn't know that at that level it will just always do what it says. He thinks there's something even deeper than what he was messing with, some mystical "algorithm" that uses what he edited as a guide.
There's not, that was the base code of what is essentially a chatbot.
I have a real chafe on my buzz about the (albeit disparaging) shortening of shit4brains name to a beloved Sesame Street character.
I feel like Elmo gave us, and in turn deserves - much better.
Same! I prefer Me-lon or Meelon. Or fElon or Muskrat (nothing against actual muskrats of course) or Space Karen...
That first Elon panel is fucking hysterical. That's a mfw meme format right there on it's own
Could this jacketed "hacker" be behind it?
~~Steamed Hams~~ Memed Scams.
Even if you give Elmo the benefit of the doubt, whoever did it had accurate ideas about how to serve his boss.
Culture comes from the top. Executives get to keep everything except the responsibility.
Well, it is certain that the Twitter guy didn't do it, as despite the image he promotes of himself, he is not an engineer. He asked of someone to do it.
But this fiasco is highlighting something very important.
Since his bot has mechanism to inject opinions on specific topics, it means the technology is likely being trained to replace normal users with bots that will try to influence opinions of regular people.
It should be signal to drop social media especially Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
Related article: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/07/nx-s1-5387701/a-controversial-experiment-on-reddit-reveals-the-persuasive-powers-of-ai
What who what happened?
Elon edited gork (twitter AI bot) at 3 am to make it say white Africans are fleeing genocide. But instead what happened is the AI bot comments on any posts (regardless of topic) basically saying white Africans are not being racial targeted or suffering from genocide. And specifically saying there is no evidence of genocide. Because there isn't any.
Big Balls and the Geek Squad strike again? But yeah sounds more like something musk himself would do.
~~Is grok part of his xAI nonsense, or is it just a regular old-school bot?~~
EDIT next post in the feed just answered my question.
Grok (obviously a typo, just clarifying)
I feel like gork would be a super friendly bot though.
Nah, Gork is the Simpsons version. Like "Bort" novelty license plates.
To be clear, the fact that there's no evidence has nothing to do with Grok saying there's no evidence. It just determined that's a likely thing for a human to say.
They're blaming it on some poor low level nobody that they may or may not have attached to a name. It's obvious bullshit to anybody but a Musk-pilled idiot.