Twitter has suspended the account of the favored memecoin-linked synthetic intelligence-powered bot “Explain This Bob” after Elon Musk alleged it was a “scam crypto account.”
Musk alleged the account was a rip-off in a tweet on June 18 in a reply to the bot; the account was seemingly suspended quickly after.
This positive appears like a rip-off crypto account. If so, it will likely be suspended.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 18, 2023
The Explain This Bob account reportedly amassed over 400,000 followers earlier than its suspension. The bot was created by Prabhu Biswal from India and used OpenAI’s GPT-4 mannequin to understand and supply responses to tweets by those that tagged the account.
The venture was additionally linked to the ERC-20 memecoin Bob Token (BOB), which was launched in April. The suspension despatched the worth of BOB down over 30%, in keeping with CoinGecko.
The suspension is a U-turn on Musk’s earlier impression of the bot, who tweeted “I love Bob” in response to one in all its tweets on April 20, a tweet that additionally prominently options on the venture’s web site.
I like Bob
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 19, 2023
Twitter has not taken motion towards the account for Bob Token, nonetheless. The venture’s workforce humorously responded to the information of the suspension, sharing a meme of Musk monitoring a distraught “Bob” in a jail.
#FREEBOB pic.twitter.com/SOUm7opQ7o
— Bob (@BobEthToken) June 18, 2023
Observers consider that Musk is of the view that Explain This Bob is getting used as a advertising tactic to prop up BOB’s value.
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Since the suspension, the hashtag “FREEBOB” has circulated on Crypto Twitter. Most observers take the view that BOB isn’t a rip-off coin and the suspension is unwarranted, because the launch of the token was “fair” along with BOB being “fully decentralized” with a 0% tax mechanism.
Another claimed the workforce didn’t present themselves with any tokens or airdrops previous to the Bob Token launch in April.
So does @elonmusk plan to offer any proof of $BOB being a rip-off or are we simply anticipated to take his phrase for it?
Intrigued to grasp what constitutes a rip-off crypto account @elonmusk?
Renounced contract0 tax0 workforce tokensFully decentralisedFair launched
Can you clarify… pic.twitter.com/0U2nuUsyqB
— Crypto Boss (CB) (@Cryptoboss2000) June 18, 2023
Cointelegraph contacted Biswal and Twitter for remark however didn’t obtain a direct response.
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