From Futurism · Joe Wilkins · · 1m
Elon Musk Stole Joke on Twitter
Elon Musk reworked a Delta Airlines joke he borrowed from a random user.
In brief
Elon Musk reworked a Delta Airlines joke he borrowed from a random user. Elon Musk reworked a Delta Airlines joke he borrowed from a machine learning engineer, claiming it was his own. Originally reported by Futurism.
Elon Musk's Joke
Elon Musk reworked a Delta Airlines joke he borrowed from a machine learning engineer, claiming it was his own.
“best way to sandbox an AI is to put it on a Delta flight, it will have no chance of accessing the Internet!”
Original Joke
Machine learning engineer Proof of Human Matt Hardy joked about Delta Airlines WiFi on X.
“we should just sandbox the [AI] agents by giving them Delta Wifi”
Musk's Reaction
Elon Musk shared a reworked version of the joke with 155,000 likes and thousands of comments.
“best way to sandbox an AI is to put it on a Delta flight, it will have no chance of accessing the Internet!”
Public Response
Users criticized Musk for claiming others' work as his own, calling it part of his career.
“Claiming other people’s work as his own is Musk’s entire career”
Musk's Stolen Ideas
Musk's companies like Neuralink and SpaceX were named after sci-fi concepts he borrowed.
“Neuralink was aped from Iain M. Banks’s "neural lace" in the utopian space opera "The Culture"”
Musk's Strategy
Musk's Hyperloop concept was built on existing designs to kill a California rail project.
“Musk’s original 2013 white paper on the system was built on centuries of proposals”
What to remember
Elon Musk reworked a Delta Airlines joke he borrowed from a machine learning engineer, claiming it was his own.
