Someone in Palo Alto did the Lord’s work by hacking some pedestrian crossing buttons to have them imitate Zuck and Musk’s voices and give a little speech about the terrors they’ve brought to our world.
These two are up there for “worst voices to listen to while trying to just cross some shitty street.” I guess that’s the point though.
Here’s another, about cooking our grandparents’ brains with AI slop:
And a third, this time about the inevitability of it all.
Having to use a beg button to cross the street already sucks. Why not have it suck a little more with a reality check from two of the worst people.
I wonder if the beg buttons here in Madison have the same vulnerability. Hmm.
Credit to Palo Alto Online for bringing this wonderful news to my attention. Check out the full article here:
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/