Over the weekend, crosswalk pedestrian signals in the backyard of mark zuckerberg and elon musk was Hacked To play voices imitating their likeness. But they were not exactly Kind to the billionaires, INTEAD OFFERING A COMMENTARAY on the Heightened Polarization and distrust of the two leaders who have made more in influential than ever in in in to date more in in in to date. Particular.
“IT’s Normal to Feel Uncomfortable or even Violated as We Forcely Insert AI INTO EVERY FACT of Your Conscious Experience,” said a crosswalk button hacked to sound like Zuckerberg. “I just want to assure you, you don’t need to worry because there’s absoluletly noting you can do to stop it.”
“Hi this is elon musk,” begins another. “Welcome to palo alto, the home of tesla engineering. You know the saying ‘Money Canvest Buy Happiness,’ I Guess That’s True. God Knows I’ve Tried, But It Can Buy A Cybertruck and THE CREBTRUCK Sick, right? ” After a pause, the crosswalk continues, “fuck i’m so alone” to an earuption of laughter in the background.
It is Fairly Easy to Recognize that Voice are synthetic, especially because musk stutters often, and the voice in the videos enunciates clearly. Sadly, by looking at the comments on tiktok it seems many people cannot get the joke and do not understand it was the consortquence of a hack, not an authorized use of the CEOS ‘Voices. It is less funny when the joke has to be explained.
Officials for RedWood City, California, Told Palo alto online That it was “actively working to investge and resolve the issue as quickly as possible.” Comments on social media sugges the problems appear to have been resolved by mode.
The vendor that makes the voice-enabled crosswalks is reportedly a company called polar, which offers pedestrian signal buttons that can Communicate with Crosswalk Signals Over Bluetooth.
Hacking the audio signals puts the blind and otherwise impaired in some danger, but at least it seems the hackers kept all the necessary alerts in place -thee Voice of Zuckerberg and MUSKCE AFTERE AFTERE AF Signals are read. On the flip side, however, hearing these voices might induce someone to walk into oncoming traffic.
Palo alto was recently the site of protests Against Musk and Tesla over his political ambitions that have made the electric car brand toxic to its original customer base. While many people may think of Fremont, California or Austin, Texas as Tesla’s Home, Its Engineering Base is Still Concentrated in Palo Alto Where the company was founded back in 2003.
Americans’ views of bot executives tilt more negative than positive, with a recent poll by Pew Research Center Finding that just over half of us adults View musk unfavorably, while a whopping 67% dislike zuckerberg. Musk, at least, is well-liked by republicans with 73% favorite for his alignment with president trump. Zuckerberg is not belowed by either party. Maybe the Public Sees Through His Facade and KnowS Zuckerberg’s Political Hard-Right Tilt is Nothing more than thinly vemed attempt at a quid-pr -Quo. Meta’s Anti-TRUST CASE, which could see the company Forced to Divest Instagram and WhatsappStarted on Monday.
It is too bad that the billionaires would not likely hear the crosswalk voices themselves, Since Walking is, of Course, Something Left to the plebeians.