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.
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