Facebook deep fake nonsense aside, if I genuinely thought Elon was involved in an investment scheme, I would immediately consider it a scam and assume my money would disappear.
Shitty reputation aside, the guy has never been a developer has he?
He was a developer on whatever company he had that got folded into PayPal. It would be accurate to say that he never was a good developer.
Huh, I always assumed he was just an exec
That said, I did make about an 800% return by investing (a small amount) in Dogecoin immediately after he tweeted that it was his favorite cryptocurrency that one time. Figured his fan club would pump it, and boy did they. I got it at about $0.05 and sold out at $0.40, believe it peaked at $0.58 or so. Wish I’d wagered more than the $250 I did on it.
The Boring Company for example
Company: Announces Elon Musk is the lead developer
Stock: 📉
Those weren’t fake, those were real (there are actual VERIFIED people on Twitter that can back me up on this) Unfortunately, you can’t ask elon himself, because he was working with that team on their crypto right before he died.
If you didn’t hear about his death, it wasn’t widely reported really because he was so insignificant that nobody really cared. But I guess they found that he broke his neck trying to suck his own dick on a ferris wheel. He was wearing small shorts, exerted himself trying to fold in half to reach, shit his pants, the shit hit the floor of the bucket, he slipped in the shit, hit the cage awkwardly and broke his neck.
Might be hacked accounts. The same happens on facebook. Some friend had their account stolen, and could not get it back. Half a year later the name and profile picture changes to “Elon Musk”. Reported it to facebook for Scam and “Impersonating public figure”. They have a report category for this exact case, so surely they know that this is a problem and they will take care of it, right? Nope, according to Facebook everything is A-Ok with the account, and no action is taken.
RIP
Hello everyone , I’m Yilong Musque! Tesla good!
Is it just me who feels like he’d be a good target for early efforts of AI impersonation because he speaks in such a disjointed sort of way to begin with?
He is a perfect target. Especially since he does so much weird shit it makes anyone willing to believe anything about him.
I’ve seen a bunch of ads on Facebook where it’s a deepfake of either Elon or Mr Beast. Just goes to show that Meta doesn’t give a fuck and will let anything through if you pay them.
I feel like bragging your lead developer is Elon Musk is not something you’d reasonably want to do
Brings in the right crowd for crypto
Not me. I was interested in the tech and innovations that underlie cryptocurrency since the early 2010s and I’ve disliked and distrusted Musk for as long as I can remember.
At that time the reddit hive mind loved Musk and was positive towards crypto, now the Reddit Hive mind has realized they actually hate musk and categorically hate crypto. My views haven’t changed (Musk is a shitty narcissistic human, and crypto solves some useful problems despite a deserved reputation for attracting a lot of scammy projects and people).
Elon, like his favored doge and bitcoin ,has run his course. He started off making sense, looking like he was going to change the world. But now He’s not energy efficient, he’s horrible for the environment, takes forever to get things done and never fully delivers what was promised. It’s time we stop worshiping Elon.
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the Pedo Guy.
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They should’ve picked a better person to lie about, especially if it’s supposed to be a developer.
No way. You want someone who’s so obviously an idiot that his face alone selects out anyone with critical reasoning faculties.
Being a deepfake used to find rubes willing to give over money to an obvious scam is the platonic ideal of elon musk. Bravo, grifters. Bravo.
Exactly, just like the Nigerian prince scam. Those who know about the scam or with enough critical thinking ability are not the marks. They want that small percentage of highly gullible people they can fleece easily.
Yeah! Pick somebody who actually knows tech, like esteemed Academy Award nominated lead developer Margot Robbie, for example.
(Wait, actually, no, getting involved in crypto is generally a bad idea…)
Ah, I missed you.
Still on that acting break, but in the meantime, you can buy a copy of “Barbie” on Blu-ray to tide you over.
I’ve disabled personalised ads on YouTube and I see this sort of shit all the time. I’ve given up reporting them because 90% of the time the report is rejected. I don’t even understand the rationale for rejecting it because it’s an obvious a scam as a scam can be - ai impersonation, fake endorsement, illegal advertising category. It’s a scam YouTube.
I don’t even get why these ads even appear. YouTube has transcription & voice / music recognition capabilities. How hard would it be to flag a suspicious ad and require a human to review it? Or search for duplicates under other burner accounts and zap them at the same time? Or having some kind of randomized audit based on trust where new accounts get reviewed more frequently by experienced reviewers.
No no. This kind of automated “protection” is only used against their users, who are their product. Not the advertisers, who are their customer!
There are other considerations here though. Google suffers reputational harm if users become victims through their platform. It becomes news, it creates distrust in users, it generates friction with regulators and law enforcement. Users may be trained to be ad averse or install ad blockers. In addition, these ads generate reports which costs time to process even if the complaints are rejected.
At the end of the day these scammers are not high profile advertisers and they’re not valuable. They’re burner accounts that pay cents to deliver their ads. They’re ephemeral, get zapped, reappear and constantly waste time and resources. Given that YouTube can easily transcribe content and watermark it, it makes no sense to me that they wouldn’t put some triggers in, e.g. a new advertiser places an ad that says “Elon Musk”, or “Quantum AI” or other such markers, flag it for review.
they ain’t gonna stop their customers from paying them more money
How hard would it be to flag a suspicious ad and require a human to review it?
Hard? No. But then humans would have to be paid which would slow down the growth of the dragon horde.
Better to have a computer analyze the ad that another computer thinks looks real.
They have to have a human respond to each and every complaint about that ad. Seems more sensible to automate and flag suspicious ads before the complaints happen.
Hahahahaha lol, I wish it had gone unnoticed a bit more. Scamming techbros and cryptobros sounds cool.
They didn’t have to . elon would prolly declare himself the founder on his own and then sue the company and the board of directors if they disagreed with him
Continuing the trend elon continues to look worser physically everytime an article is posted about him
The Ancap free market working as intended.
They really needed to get a statement from Twitter on this. I assume they asked. How are we supposed to know whether or not there was a poop emoji?
They tried: no company named “Twitter” exists.
When Elon stops allowing deadnaming on his website, I’ll stop deadnaming his website.
I’ll happily call it X because it was such a monumentally stupid idea to try to change the name, and if ‘X’ actually caught on it would be much worse for ‘X’.
