Elon Musk's 'Scam Crypto' Claim Leads to Suspension of AI Bot on Twitter – What's Going On?
Twitter has suspended the account of a popular meme coin-linked AI bot "Explain This Bob" after Elon Musk called it a "scam."
"This sure looks like a scam crypto account. If so, it will be suspended," Musk said in response to a tweet by the bot.
The account appears to have been suspended soon after Musk's tweet.
The automated Twitter account "Explain This Bob" used OpenAI’s latest large multimodal model GPT-4 to comprehend and respond to tweets by those who tagged the account.
The account quickly went viral on Twitter in late April for its witty summaries and comedic responses to tweets. “I love bob,” even Musk once said in reply to the bot in April.
Musk has since engaged several times with the Bob bot. He tweeted as recently as June that “Once again, Bob nails it,” in response to a political discussion.
Notably, another Twitter bot called @AskTheWassie, a comic frog that functioned similarly to "Explain This Bob," has also been suspended.
This came after Musk warned that the promotion of scams results in suspension in response to a tweet by the bot.
"Promotion of scams under the guise of being a funny/helpful bot will result in suspension. Doesn’t matter how much you pay us," he said.
Notably, the "Explain This Bob" bot was also linked to the ERC-20 meme coin Bob Token (BOB), which was launched in April.
Data by CoinGecko shows the token has taken a hit following the suspension of its affiliated bot account. The token is currently trading at $0.00001901, down by around 13% over the past day.
Since the suspension, some in the crypto community have asked Musk to remove the ban and reinstate the bot account.
The team behind the Bob token has also shared a meme of Musk monitoring a distraught “Bob” in prison with the hashtag
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