I am here to profess my eternal and undying love for this description
Xitter, the steaming remains of Twitter
Elon Musk’s ironic bot army exposed
Submitted 10 months ago by ooli@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://boingboing.net/2024/01/09/elon-musks-ironic-bot-army-exposed.html
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magnetosphere@kbin.social 10 months ago
CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Petition to refer to it as Xitter from now on.
XTornado@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Idk… I feel calling it steaming… When clearly is ash and smoke… and some bird bones, feels too good.
bitwaba@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s steaming because the X is pronounced “sh”, so it’s a steaming pile of Xit.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ironic call out of ai bots when using AI generated trash images like that.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 10 months ago
it’s what elon deserves though. i don’t want to see an actual picture of his ugly face.
macattack@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Great to hear. Preferably from a more neutral source next time.
ooli@lemmy.world 10 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@lemmy.world 10 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@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Just read the news from the Reuters app directly, problem solved
mriormro@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is that entire site just ai generated garbage now?
mPony@kbin.social 10 months ago
well the artwork undeniably is.
but the point stands: obvious Xitter bot army is obvious.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 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@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]Aatube@kbin.social 10 months ago
'twas the point: They'd never leave
AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Decoy321@lemmy.world 10 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.
paddirn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is the “X” in “Xitheads” pronounced like “xzitheads” or like “jhitheads”?
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I naturally assumed zitheads or shitheads, given the standard pronunciation of ‘x’ in words…
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 months ago
The best part is, it all works, because it all sounds stupid!
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Szhitheads
Papergeist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I usually pronounce ‘x’ as an ‘sh’ like the native Mexican language of Nahuatl.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Also like the X in Pinyin (eg. “Chairman Xi”)
bitwaba@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Shitheads.
veeesix@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Wouldn’t surprise me if the calls were coming from inside. What’s Twitter’s Grok chatbot used for these days?
Sir_Fridge@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bryce?
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 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@kbin.social 10 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@lemmy.world 10 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