The Morning After: Crosswalks are being hacked to imitate tech billionaires

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Welcome to your Friday version of TMA. It’s a public vacation the place I’m from, so it’s a shorter briefing than standard. Barring a barrage of new cars (tariffs? shh!) revealed on the New York Worldwide Auto Present, it’s been a comparatively quiet week, however not with no little bit of drama.

“, they are saying cash can’t purchase happiness. And… yeah, OK… I suppose that’s true. God is aware of I’ve tried. However it could possibly purchase a Cybertruck, and that’s fairly sick, proper? …Proper?? Fuck, I’m so alone.” That’s what a reasonably real looking AI voice clone of Elon Musk was saying to pedestrians at crosswalks in Palo Alto. An AI Mark Zuckerberg joined him, with each billionaires’ voices mimicked to say, effectively, the issues numerous us are pondering, whether or not it’s the invasive AI push, billionaires wielding energy over authorities or different bleak, beige real-world variations of Black Mirror premises.

They have been in operation at downtown intersections in Redwood Metropolis, Menlo Park and Palo Alto however have been gone, sadly, by Saturday.

Nobody’s staked a declare to the prank — however there are most likely many individuals in Silicon Valley able to pulling it off. Extra just lately, an AI clone of Jeff Bezos was talking on Seattle crosswalks.

— Mat Smith

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