ooli@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoA Hong Kong-based crypto exchange used deepfakes of Elon Musk to claim the billionaire was its lead developerwww.businessinsider.comexternal-linkmessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1302arrow-down18
arrow-up1294arrow-down1external-linkA Hong Kong-based crypto exchange used deepfakes of Elon Musk to claim the billionaire was its lead developerwww.businessinsider.comooli@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square52fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoThey really needed to get a statement from Twitter on this. I assume they asked. How are we supposed to know whether or not there was a poop emoji?
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoThey tried: no company named “Twitter” exists.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 months agoWhen Elon stops allowing deadnaming on his website, I’ll stop deadnaming his website.
minus-squareCileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·5 months agoI’ll happily call it X because it was such a monumentally stupid idea to try to change the name, and if ‘X’ actually caught on it would be much worse for ‘X’.
They really needed to get a statement from Twitter on this. I assume they asked. How are we supposed to know whether or not there was a poop emoji?
They tried: no company named “Twitter” exists.
When Elon stops allowing deadnaming on his website, I’ll stop deadnaming his website.
I’ll happily call it X because it was such a monumentally stupid idea to try to change the name, and if ‘X’ actually caught on it would be much worse for ‘X’.