Elon Musk has once again sparked a big discussion on his social media platform X (formerly Twitter) with a surprising question:
"How many real people are still on the Internet?"
He shared a post by X$$$ show host Mario Nawfal, who said a report from The Straits Times claimed that in 2024, AI bots officially took over the internet. The post mentioned that bots now make up most online traffic and are getting smarter. These bots do things like grab travel deals, steal concert tickets, and cause drama on social media.
Interestingly, Nawfal misspelled the name of the newspaper as "The Straight Times," which could’ve been a mistake by an AI autocorrect.
Musk's question got a lot of attention. Popular crypto analyst Willy Woo jokingly replied, saying he was "a pixelated cartoon character" and asked Musk,
"How do I know you’re not a machine?"
Other users quickly joined in to confirm they were real people.
Musk often talks about the idea that we might be living in a computer simulation. He once said that just like Tesla and SpaceX run simulations to predict outcomes, it’s possible that some higher intelligence is doing the same with our reality—just to see what happens.