Elon Musk crashed the cryptocurrency rate with one tweet
The Twitter administration has blocked the Explain This Bob profile. It belonged to a chatbot with over 400 thousand followers. people. The chatbot’s account was blocked after Elon Musk called the digital currency BOB scum.
The billionaire called the BOB virtual currency fraudulent. He posted a message about this on Twitter. Immediately afterwards, the profile belonging to the chatbot was blocked. This led to a 30% drop in the value of BOB on the cryptocurrency market. Musk faced a new wave of hate from cryptocurrency investors.
Users of the microblogging service drew attention to the fact that BOB is a decentralized cryptocurrency. Crypto market participants have no complaints about the order of its distribution at the start. After the account was blocked, users began to spread the hashtag #FREEBOBOB.
The chatbot was based on the ChatGPT-4 model. It generated explanations for any posts tagged by users. In April of this year, the chatbot’s popularity reached such a level that the owner of Twitter posted the message I love Bob on his account.
