Silicon Valley crosswalks hacked to play fake AI voices of Musk and Zuckerberg

WTF?! A number of pedestrians in Silicon Valley got a surprise recently when crosswalks started to spout strange messages from what sounded like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. It turned out that the systems had been hacked and these were imitations of the billionaires' voices. Videos taken at locations in Redwood City, Menlo Park and Palo Alto showed the voices being played when the crosswalk buttons were pressed. One of the videos includes a voice that sounds very similar to Zuckerberg, identifying itself as "Zuck," proclaiming, "it's normal to feel uncomfortable or even violated as we forcefully insert AI into every facet of your conscious experience. And I just want to assure you, you don't need to worry because there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop it." "From undermining democracy, to cooking our grandparents' brains with AI slop, to making the world less safe for trans people, nobody does it better than us – and I think that's pretty neat," the voice says. Another voic ... Read full article.