# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** elon-musk\ **Created:** [August 13, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634 "2024-08-13T00:48:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 140
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2802 "2025-11-21T00:59:26Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > If anything can prove that money can’t buy happiness, it’s Elon’s crystal clear and utterly hopeless desire for the world to see him as cool. But he dresses in Roman armor and was in an Iron Man film, how is he not cool? /s ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2803 "2025-11-21T01:10:31Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > My guess is that the intention was to be more subtle than this in praising Elon You’d think he would’ve learned after the time his prodding caused it to start responding to every question by talking about “white genocide in South Africa”. Or they Mecha-Hitler debacle. Who am I kidding. If Elon were capable of learning from his mistakes he wouldn’t keep spending billions of dollars on rockets with a lower success rate than what NASA was doing 60 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2804 "2025-11-21T01:29:26Z")
And Elon’s now going with the “it was hackers” excuse. > ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2805 "2025-11-21T01:47:26Z")
“Adversarial prompting”? That is not the great excuse he seems to think. At least it does confirm his confession that he’s an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2806 "2025-11-21T03:40:15Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > he wouldn’t keep spending billions of dollars on rockets with a lower success rate than what NASA was doing 60 years ago. Do you really think Starship is a failure? The program went through a really rough patch for flights 7, 8, and 9, and the pad failure of ship 36; I myself was starting to become doubtful. But things seemed to bounce back with 10 and 11. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2807 "2025-11-21T03:42:26Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Do you really think Starship is a failure? I wouldn’t trust my life to one. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2808 "2025-11-21T03:43:30Z")
No one would at this point; that is why they have these things called test programs. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2809 "2025-11-21T03:58:17Z")
And there’s no amount of money any sane person would take to be on one of those test flights. Outsourcing the space program to billionaire manchildren was a mistake. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2810 "2025-11-21T04:07:35Z")
I thought SLS/ Orion/ Artemis was our national space program. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2811 "2025-11-21T04:22:28Z")
The Artemis 3 lander is supposed to be a Starship variant. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2812 "2025-11-21T12:59:48Z")
Edited: Ah, nevermind. I see there was an update to the Grok post. I ran it through ChatGPT per your question above, and basically it said it was a hagiography written by a bot, but I see that Elon has now walked back the bot’s actions. And since we’re on the subject, Chat GPT doesn’t completely buy the explanation that only adversarial prompting generated that response. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2813 "2025-11-21T13:47:00Z")
Adversarial prompting? The smartest man in the world didn’t anticipate that possibility? What is genius coming to? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2814 "2025-11-21T14:29:31Z")
He never learned: you don’t buy declarations of genius, you only ever rent them ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2815 "2025-11-21T15:25:28Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > What is genius coming to? How many times have we all read those various lists of “Mistakes I will not make when I become an evil genius.”? Pretty much every item on those lists can be meta-ed to “When I am an evil genius I will not let hubris overtake my judgment.” Guess what: It always does. As we see in the present case. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2025, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2816 "2025-11-21T21:32:40Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > “Adversarial prompting”? That is not the great excuse he seems to think. So apparently Elon thinks of his AI as being exactly like the computers Captain Kirk used to talk to death: so fragile that a couple of sentences can derail/destroy them. Nice product, Elon! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2817 "2025-11-23T01:52:42Z")
Twitter now shows users’ country of origin on their account page. The magas are flipping out after discovering that their favorite influencers are all Third World bot accounts. > **[Internet erupts as MAGA influencers exposed for being based in other countries](https://www.rawstory.com/maga-foreign-tie-exposed/)** > > A large number of MAGA social media influencers were exposed over the weekend as being being based in other countries.Podcaster Matt Binder posted screenshots showing that Charlie’s Voice Rising, a popular Charlie Kirk fan account, is based in... ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2818 "2025-11-23T02:02:22Z")
This is a peculiar move by Musk. Peculiar and funny. I’m not seeing his motive though, which I naturally assume isn’t altruistic. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2819 "2025-11-23T02:14:12Z")
Selling the ability to make your bots look as if they come from the USA? ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2820 "2025-11-23T04:08:11Z")
For only $9.95 per month, change your location to the USA or suitable western country you’re trying to undermine. Too low? ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/2821 "2025-11-23T08:12:03Z")
The Grok replies were funny. I just watched Future Man and it is exactly like the James Cameron episode! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=139) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634.md?page=141)