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Elon Musk’s ironic bot army exposed

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

Xitter, the steaming remains of Twitter

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- Petition to refer to it as Xitter from now on.
  
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- Idk... I feel calling it steaming... When clearly is ash and smoke... and some bird bones, feels too good.
  
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  It's steaming because the X is pronounced "sh", so it's a steaming pile of Xit.
  
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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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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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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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- I....well....yeah? Why would bots make a moral decision to leave? lol
  
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  'twas the point: They'd never leave
  
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Is that entire site just ai generated garbage now?

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