The weekend, the buttons that pedestrians usually tighten to accelerate the cross between streets were taken by the voices of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg in different parts of Silicon Valley. Generally, these buttons, designed for people with visual disabilities, usually issue a voice message to warn the pedestrian that can cross. Now, on the other hand, Zuckerberg is heard explaining how you cannot do absolutely anything to avoid the growth of the artificial intelligence.
“It is normal for you to feel uncomfortable or even abused while we force artificial intelligence in each facet of your conscious experience,” said a pedestrian cross button, which was modified to sound like Zuckerberg. “I just want to make sure you don’t have to worry because there is absolutely nothing you can do to avoid it,” he ended.
Citizens of the neighborhoods of Menlo Park, Palo Alto and Redwood City, in California, were the ones who captured this phenomenon. His videos on social networks quickly went viral and were taken with humor by the public. Even Elon Musk himself, another joke victim, attached one of the contents And he published it in his X account along with an emoji laughing.
“Hello, I am Elon Musk. Welcome to Palo Alto, the Tesla engineering house. They say that money cannot buy happiness. And it can be. God knows that I tried. But it can Buy a cybertruck and that’s quite incredibleRight? ”, Said the cloned voice of Musk when the pedestrians squeezed the button.” I’m alone, “the message concluded.
The messages varied, and many of them contained an acid humor. For example, at another cross, Zuckerberg explained how happy he had achieved together, referring to him as Facebook owner and pedestrians as users. “From undermining democracy to saturate the brains of our grandparents with artificial intelligence spleen, going through making the world less safe for trans people, nobody does better than us, and that seems incredible to me,” says the voice.
According to Palo Alto Onlineone of the first means to report the incident, Meghan Horrigan-TaylorPalo Alto spokeswoman, said the city that the city determined that Only 12 intersections in the city suffered the impact of this hacking and that were already deactivated. He also explained that voice -guided pedestrian crossings were deactivated until the necessary arrangements are made. The identity and objective of the minds behind this incident is not yet known.
“Unauthorized messages have been deactivated since then, and the staff is evaluating ways to strengthen system protections,” he explained Jennifer Yamagumamanager of the city of Redwood. “In addition, we want to remind the public to manipulate the city’s infrastructure, including pedestrian passages, it is illegal and is a safety risk,” he said.
Consequently, the authorities of the affected cities opened an investigation to know with certainty who or who had entered their system unauthorized. Although the issue was taken with humor in social networks, Pedestrian crossings guided with voice are used globally to help blind people or visual impediments. The directions that the system usually provides guides the disabled to correct the street correctly and avoid traffic accidents.