Tim Poole

The operation absolutely did happen.

Because I remember it was going viral.

People were like...

The argument was that reCAPTCHA was trying to steal labor from people with this method.

They were tricking people into training AI to read books.

Without them knowing.

Without people getting paid to do it, they were decentralizing the labor.

I believe that X is probably that training algorithm in all the same way.

That is, I would not be surprised if they intentionally have grok bots tweeting at people, posting at people, trying to generate replies because it trains the AI on these interactions.

Get this.

Why is it then that Elon Musk says your payment is based on the number of replies you get?

Because that encourages people to reply and generate more replies.

So let's say you put up a tweet or an X post and you say, you know, I'm just not a fan of waffles.

And then someone responds with, and you can see a lot of these are bots easily.

Some of them are very obviously bots.

They'll be like, waffles weren't invented.

And you're like, ignore.

But imagine this.

Grok's AI sees a tweet that says, you know, Donald Trump is doing a decent job, but I'm upset about the war.

It then responds with something that is seemingly nonsensical.