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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Elon's pet LLM chat bot. The one that he recently tweaked temporarily(?) to spread South African "white genocide" conspiracy theories on Twitter because... well because what else would you expect Elon to spend his time doing?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Oh, I see.

Ugh. Billionaires should get restrictions on the stuff they are allowed to publish

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Billionaires should not exist

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago

Alrighty, I changed my vote to this option

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago

Billionaires can and do use their money to make those restrictions disappear. Just like millionaires used their money to remove the restrictions on getting more money to become billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s not known whether it was him or not, but many suspect it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Its a reasonable suspicion.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

why should wealth explicitly affect the ruleset by which you play? freedom of the press is crucial to avoid facism, however politicians could get an exemption.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

why should wealth explicitly affect the ruleset by which you play? You are right, it shouldn't. That's why billionaires shouldn't be able to own newspapers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

The core issue is clearly that money can be used to bypass rules.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Elaborate on why politicians should be exempt

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

they in some sense represent the nation, one orange piece of shit shouldn't be about to ruin the reputation without some punishment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well that’s about Trump, not politicians broadly. But if we assume that’s the issue across the board, is the problem that politicians are able to represent us with their words, or that politicians are able to escape consequences for their words?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

It also got tweaked to spread Holocaust denial after that.