Billionaire and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban raised a query on social media on Sunday a couple of ballot he carried out on former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris relating to their “persona and character.”
Because the 2024 election attracts nearer, Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, is about to face off in opposition to Harris, who received the Democratic presidential nominee after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race on July 21.
With a number of completely different polls popping out exhibiting a detailed race between the 2 nominees, Cuban, a frequent critic of Trump, took to X, previously Twitter, on Friday to conduct his personal ballot on Trump and Harris.
“Who’s persona and character would you wish to see younger kids develop as much as have?” Cuban wrote on X.
In keeping with the ballot, Trump received with 68.9 % to only 31.1 % for Harris, with a complete of 804,173 votes forged.
Who’s persona and character would you wish to see younger kids develop as much as have:
— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) August 31, 2024
In response to the outcomes, Cuban then raised a query on Sunday in regards to the quantity of votes to the quantity of engagement the ballot acquired and tagged Elon Musk, who took over the social media platform in 2022.
“Hey @elonmusk @nypost, how come there have been 804k votes for the ballot , however solely 656k engagements within the analytics?” Musk wrote on X.
Newsweek has reached out to Trump’s and Harris’ marketing campaign by way of e mail and Musk by way of Tesla‘s e mail for remark.
Cuban hooked up a screenshot of him asking “Grok” about whether or not responding to a ballot in an X submit counts as engagement for the submit’s analytics, to which Grok responded with “sure” citing direct engagement, analytics recognition, and platform encouragement.
“Sure, responding to a ballot inside a X submit (tweet) counts as engagement for the submit’s analytics. Engagement on X contains varied interactions comparable to likes, retweets, feedback and importantly, responses to polls,” Grok mentioned per Cuban’s submit. “When customers work together with a ballot by deciding on an choice, its recorded as an interplay with that submit.”
Musk has carried out some controversial adjustments to the social media platform since buying it. These adjustments included eliminating a lot of Twitter’s employees, briefly suspending some journalists from the platform and reinstating lots of its beforehand banned customers.
Musk then pitched X’s synthetic intelligence (AI) chatbot “Grok,” which debuted final 12 months, as an AI that casually converses with customers who’re subscribers of X’s premium tiers.
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Nonetheless, the chatbot has been on the middle of some points, extra just lately in a letter despatched in early August 5 secretaries of state mentioned Musk’s AI chatbot has unfold election misinformation and are urging the billionaire to repair it.
The Related Press reported secretaries of state from Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Washington final month expressed their issues in a letter to Musk, stating that Grok produced false info relating to state poll deadlines.
The problems with Grok reportedly got here shortly after Biden stepped down from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Harris.
In keeping with the AP, the secretaries of state mentioned that Grok supplied incorrect poll deadlines that have been then shared throughout varied social media platforms and reached thousands and thousands of individuals. Of their letter, the officers added that Grok continued to repeat the false info for 10 days earlier than it was corrected.
“As tens of thousands and thousands of voters within the U.S. search primary details about voting on this main election 12 months, X has the duty to make sure all voters utilizing your platform have entry to steerage that displays true and correct details about their constitutional proper to vote,” the secretaries wrote within the letter, per the AP.
