After Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Elon Musk’s company tells Americans: Fake accounts from China are trying to turn you against …

Just weeks after Sam Altman’s OpenAI linked China with datacentre protests across America, now the world’s richest man Elon Musk’s company X, formerly Twitter, has made similar claims. In a post on its platform, X said that it has discovered a bot farm network with 200,000 accounts as part of its Safety team’s investigation into suspected inauthentic Chinese accounts. The company announced its findings on its Global Government Affairs page. It said that 200 accounts out of the 200,000 were posting comic strips, images and text about AI data centers in a manner that “could manipulate a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.”

In June this year, OpenAI published a report saying that accounts likely based in China used ChatGPT to generate anti-data center content.