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š§ Elon Musk Stuns Crypto X With One Question:
āHow Many Real People Are Still Online?ā
On May 27, 2025, Elon Musk fired off a simple yet unsettling tweet:
āHow many real people are still on the Internet?ā
He was responding to a post claiming AI bots officially took over the internet in 2024. The tweet, quoting The Straits Times, stated:
𦾠āOver half of all web traffic is now bots⦠and many are up to no good.ā
š¤ AI Bots: The New Internet Majority?
These bots arenāt just lurkingātheyāre buying up concert tickets, hijacking posts, and even spreading drama. And with generative AI evolving fast, itās harder than ever to tell who (or what) is real.
Willy Woo, crypto trader, joked back:
āIām a pixelated cartoon character. How do I know youāre not a machine?ā
š§© Simulation Theory Meets Web3
Muskās question ties into his belief in the āsimulation theoryāāthat reality might be a sophisticated model.
Just like how blockchain simulates trust, this theory asks:
š¹ Are we just data in someone elseās code?
š”ļø Why It Matters for Crypto
In a world flooded with bots, Web3 could be key to verifying whatās human:
⢠š Decentralized Identity: Prove youāre real, not a script.
⢠š Blockchain Verification: Authenticate data, sources, and people.
⢠š¤ Trustless, but verifiable: Even if we canāt trust the web, we can still verify it.
Are you real? Prove it on-chain.
š¢ Web3 isnāt just about coinsāitās about preserving human authenticity in a synthetic