When I first saw a post about this on social media, I wondered whether it was real, because somebody could easily have produced a fake video. Then I saw that Rachel Maddow over at MSNBC said it’s true, and we trust her to report accurate information, don’t we? Well, actually no, but other outlets have confirmed it’s happening so here we go:
To wit, some wiseguy (or girl) has apparently hacked into crosswalk signals in cities like Seattle and Palo Alto and given them the voices of prominent folks in Big Tech—namely Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Instead of some weird computer voice telling you what to do, you can listen to (a presumably AI) Zuck give you his thoughts about artificial intelligence:
Somebody hacked in a dozen of crosswalks of Bay area by inserting voice of Zuck and Elon…
That’s bay…
