Someone hacked Silicon Valley crosswalks to spoof Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk

Whether successful Ancient Greek parodies, Shakespeare's subtle jabs astatine the haughty precocious people oregon Jon Stewart's takedowns of the latest Washington absurdities, wit tin beryllium a razor-edged limb that shapes nationalist opinion. Last weekend, we were reminded again of comedy's quality to onslaught astatine the affluent and almighty erstwhile idiosyncratic hacked Silicon Valley crosswalks to play synthetic dependable impersonations of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.

"Hi, this is Elon Musk," the dependable impersonating the Trump state and national authorities dismantler said. "Welcome to Palo Alto, the location of Tesla Engineering. You know, they accidental wealth can't bargain happiness. And… yeah, okay… I conjecture that's true. God knows I've tried. But it tin bargain a Cybertruck, and that's beauteous sick, right? …Right?? Fuck, I'm truthful alone."

"Hi, this is Mark Zuckerberg, but existent ones telephone maine the Zuck," the synthetic dependable of Meta's CEO said implicit 1 crosswalk speaker. "It's mean to consciousness uncomfortable oregon adjacent violated arsenic we forcefully insert AI into each facet of your conscious experience. And I conscionable privation to guarantee you, you don't request to interest due to the fact that there's perfectly thing you tin bash to halt it. Anyway, spot ya."

The videos person accumulated implicit 100,000 likes connected TikTok and astir 400,000 views connected X (ironically). Palo Alto Online reports (via TechCrunch) that they could beryllium heard successful downtown intersections successful Redwood City, Menlo Park and Palo Alto but had been removed opening connected Saturday.

"Hi, this is Elon Musk," different crosswalk talker emitted. "And I'd similar to personally invited you to Palo Alto. People support saying crab is bad, but person you tried being a cancer? It's fucking awesome."

"Hey, it's Zuck here," different dependable said. "I conscionable wanted to archer you however precise arrogant I americium of everything we've been gathering together. From undermining ideology to cooking our grandparents' brains with AI slop to making the satellite little harmless for trans people, cipher does it amended than us. And I deliberation that's beauteous neat. Zuck out!"

Finally, a Palo Alto talker conducted armchair science connected the Tesla CEO. "Hi, I'm Elon. Can we beryllium friends? Will you beryllium my friend? I'll springiness you a Cybertruck, I promise. Okay, look, you don't cognize the level of depravity I would stoop to conscionable for a crumb of approval. I mean, let's beryllium real. It's not similar I had immoderate motivation convictions to statesman with, right?"