[zelon88]

I've noticed that the amount of click-farm generated spam from third world countries pushing Tesla related propaganda has spiked tremendously since inauguration day.

Keep an eye open for AI generated images of Musk in front of fictional technology, with captions that read things like "Musk releases NEW $40 cell phone to the world!"

It's all fake fluff designed to offset the genuine negativity he's creating for himself. I just can't figure out if it's paid promotional shilling, or shilling by unfriendly nations just pig-piling on the divisive rhetoric.

Either way, when the political pendulum swings back to the left I intend to urge my elected officials to track down and physically destroy the bot / click farms using military force if needed. I don't mean investigations and police. I mean we fly a Tomahawk through the window. We're at the point now where foreign political interference is amounting to an aggravated act of war. Even if it's solicited by one party or another, stay out of it.

[gs17]

> It's all fake fluff designed to offset the genuine negativity he's creating for himself.

Is it? All the fake Musk things I've seen are, yes, positive, but they're also just scams (e.g. ads for a "Quantum AI" for picking stocks that he invented, where you get a free Tesla if you don't make a million dollars). I guess for the victims that end up in denial it boosts their opinion of him.

[bryanlarsen]

I've been assuming that these are rug-pull shitcoin scams, since that's what they were before the election. Has that changed?

[sockaddr]

This stuff literally works.

I know someone personally that while at a kid's soccer game said to me:

"Hey did you see that new engine Elon made? It runs on water and he's going to be putting it in all of his cars! He's also trying to mine H3 from the moon!"

Because I'm friends with this person and I like them I try to play dumb as to not be insulting and ask them to pull it up and show me. Once he does I say "oh that looks like it's AI generated" and he sort of agrees.

I don't think this person has a low IQ or anything, but I do consider them sort of ignorant (but not typical racist Trump supporter ignorant), just low-information.

We need to try to politely call this stuff out when our friends and family are being tricked because it is doing them (and us) real harm.

[blitzar]

Real friends tell friends they are being stupid when they are being stupid.

[sockaddr]

I agree. But it's a friend through preschool and we're not super close yet.