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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 80 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 58 points 8 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

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 72 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

Xitter, the steaming remains of Twitter

[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Petition to refer to it as Xitter from now on.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's steaming because the X is pronounced "sh", so it's a steaming pile of Xit.

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Oh yeah... I see is a hot one.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

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

[–] macattack@lemmy.world 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 5 points 8 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

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] mriormro@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is that entire site just ai generated garbage now?

[–] mPony@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

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

[–] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Is the "X" in "Xitheads" pronounced like "xzitheads" or like "jhitheads"?

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I naturally assumed zitheads or shitheads, given the standard pronunciation of 'x' in words...

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

It all is stupid.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago
[–] Papergeist@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

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

[–] bitwaba@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago
[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 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 1 points 8 months ago