Elon Musk’s ironic bot army exposed

Sir_Fridge , 5 months ago

Bryce?

mriormro , 5 months ago

Is that entire site just ai generated garbage now?

mPony , 5 months ago

well the artwork undeniably is.
but the point stands: obvious Xitter bot army is obvious.

deweydecibel , 5 months ago

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

rickyrigatoni , 5 months ago

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

AllYourSmurf , 5 months ago

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

Decoy321 , 5 months ago

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.

magnetosphere , 5 months ago

I am here to profess my eternal and undying love for this description

Xitter, the steaming remains of Twitter

XTornado , 5 months ago

Idk… I feel calling it steaming… When clearly is ash and smoke… and some bird bones, feels too good.

bitwaba , 5 months ago

It’s steaming because the X is pronounced “sh”, so it’s a steaming pile of Xit.

XTornado , 5 months ago

Oh yeah… I see is a hot one.

CowsLookLikeMaps , 5 months ago

Petition to refer to it as Xitter from now on.

paddirn , 5 months ago

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

southsamurai , 5 months ago

Szhitheads

Papergeist , 5 months ago

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

bionicjoey , 5 months ago

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

WaxedWookie , 5 months ago

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

DragonTypeWyvern , 5 months ago

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

WaxedWookie , 5 months ago

It all is stupid.

bitwaba , 5 months ago

Shitheads.

macattack , 5 months ago

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

ooli OP , 5 months ago

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

Rhoeri , 5 months ago

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

Retrograde , 5 months ago

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

veeesix , 5 months ago

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

homesweethomeMrL , 5 months ago

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

EdibleFriend , 5 months ago

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Aatube , 5 months ago

'twas the point: They'd never leave

originalucifer , 5 months ago

this is the funnniest thing since he was forced to buy it. accidentally outing his own bots because billioonaire cant pay his bills.

Deceptichum , 5 months ago

What? This has nothing to do with his finances? Where did you get that from?

The bots got outed because they all gave the ChatGPT response to not answering a topic.

Ace0fBlades , 5 months ago

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

Windex007 , 5 months ago

The article isn’t saying that Musk is behind the bots.

The article is making fun of him for waving his opportunity to do due diligence before the purchase and being stuck with all the bots.

pacoo2454 , 5 months ago

Of course that’s what the article is saying.

“Bluesky users are roasting Elon Musk for his freshly exposed blue-checked bot army of fake Xitheads.”

“Fast forward a year and it appears Xitter, the steaming remains of Twitter, is using bots to generate Tweets and look bigger.”

hitmyspot , 5 months ago

Adding to that, the idea of the check mark used to be to ensure you were talking to who you thought it was. Now bots are verified.

Windex007 , 5 months ago

Is the author actually accusing the company itself of running the bots in that sentence? The more I read it the more it hurts my brain. The more times I read this article my brain just hurts more and more. They’re not even attempting to explain, let alone justify, this assertion.

TimLovesTech , 5 months ago

It wouldn’t be the 1st platform to try and use bots to boost numbers, except it is usually in the beginning when trying to reach that critical tipping point mass that brings people organically. This would be to make the ship look less underwater to save face (and possibly stop the whole platform imploding).

Edit - Also it very much says they believe Musk is running the bots in this sentence - “Fast forward a year and it appears Xitter, the steaming remains of Twitter, is using bots to generate Tweets and look bigger.”

Windex007 , 5 months ago

Is their justification for that accusation simply that the bots exist?

WhiteOakBayou , 5 months ago

This is really an important difference. Defrauding advertisers on purpose with clear intent is very different from doing do because one decided not to look. Not in effect but in how cheated the mypillow guy will feel.

TimLovesTech , 5 months ago

Yes. Musk claimed that Twitter was full of bots, but bought Twitter anyways. He now has access to everything, and yet the bot still exist. So he either has done a 180 on the bots being bad because they are helping the platform look bigger, or he actually did squash the previous bots and has deployed bots he finds more favorable to his platform/himself. Either way it looks that he is not actively fighting the bots after having stated the platform was full of them.