Last week, hackers took over the crosswalk buttons of downtown intersections in Palo Alto, Redwood City, and Menlo Park in California, to play seemingly AI-generated clips of Elon Musk’s voice. As the ...

On Wednesday, crosswalk beg buttons across the city had a lot to say. Five beg buttons—three in the University District, one close to South Lake Union, and another in Wedgwood—were hacked to sound a ...

Seattle pedestrians were greeted Wednesday by Jeff Bezos – or, rather, an AI-generated version of the billionaire’s voice – in hacked crosswalk audio recordings that usually say things like “Wait!” ...

Pedestrians pushing a crosswalk button near the University of Washington got to listen to “Bezos” spout on about not taxing the rich and even reference Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United ...

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SEATTLE — Pedestrians who pushed the crosswalk buttons at several Seattle intersections Wednesday heard a different voice over the speaker than what they may be used to: an AI-generated imitation of ...

An audio-enabled crosswalk button in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood was altered to sound like Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. (GeekWire Photo / Taylor Soper) The audio enhancement feature at ...

RANT to pedestrians who don’t use crosswalk buttons. The city of Lake Forest Park recently installed a button-activated, flashing crosswalk on the south side of the Town Center because of drivers’ ...