The most Silicon Valley crime you can imagine.

People are getting really, really annoyed about artificial intelligence. While it was fun for a little bit to have ChatGPT tell you a story or an image generator create a picture of Pikachu holding an AK-47, the fact that much of social media is now filled with bot-generated content can make logging on every day a bit sickening.

That doesn’t mean we’re going to log off, of course. But still, we’re getting tired of this shit!

Now, some people are seemingly protesting against our tech-infested world by hacking into crosswalks to get them to play messages from Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk sound-alikes. It seems like the city has responded by disabling the voice feature across crosswalks, but it was fun while it lasted!

who of you hacked all the traffic lights in downtown palo alto to sound like elon musk pic.twitter.com/iYA0RjaQP2

— Marvin von Hagen (@marvinvonhagen) April 13, 2025

Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons have been hacked to hilarious effect pic.twitter.com/ZiI7h51qip

— Peyman Milanfar (@docmilanfar) April 13, 2025