if the fashsite still had an API…

[solarbird]

…and I were willing to interact with it, of course…

…the question I would be running today is, “How many newly-revealed Russian ChatGPT propaganda bots has Elon Musk interacted with over the last year?”

(Source)

Could it be a fakeout? Sure. But there are lots of accounts involved, so if so, it’s a big fakeout, big enough that it’s not “hur hur you so stupid” and “yep, we sure did try hard to pull one,” and I don’t see how that works in their favour. Not to mention that’s some big “12-dimensional chess” energies, and big operations forget small shit all the time. How many critical domains have we seen fail to renew over the last decade? I don’t have an exact count, but it’s a lot. So sure, it could be a fakeout, but…

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Comments

[jessie_c]

The real questions are:
a) Does he care?
b) Is anyone else deluded into thinking that he cares?

[solarbird]

Does he care? I don't care whether he cares. I care whether other people give him credibility. Having conversations with Russian propaganda bots does not give him credibility outside the fully-indoctrinated cult membership.

[jessie_c]

Sorry, my question was ambiguous. I was really going for 'Does he care that we know he's full of sh!t and that his fash site is full of bots and propaganda?'

[solarbird]

If enough people know that and act appropriately, he'll care. He'll care a lot.

That's my goal.

[jessie_c]

He almost got the message last year when most of the advertisers bailed. But then they unbailed which tells him that he can get away with his nonsense :(