Elon Musk Asks Question That Stuns Crypto Community on X

Elon Musk has once again given the crypto community on his X platform something to think about, sparking a hot discussion under his recent tweet.

Among those who responded to Musk, hitting him back with the same question, was a prominent crypto trader Willy Woo.

Musk questions reality of Internet users

Tesla CEO and the boss of the D.O.G.E. has set the community talking by a simple but acute question. What he asked was: “How many real people are still on the Internet?”

Musk quotes Mario Nawfal, an interviewer with his own popular show on the X social media platform, who enjoys the attention of 2.2 million followers.

How many real people are still on the Internet? https://t.co/RmIjooIwxt

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 27, 2025

In his post, Nawfal cited a Singaporean newspaper, The Straits Times, saying that humans “officially lost the internet to AI-powered bots in 2024” and the Internet is dominated by AI bots these days.

Is Elon Musk’s X account run by AI bot?

“Over half of all web traffic is now bots, and many of them up to no good,” the tweet claims. Many of those bots “hit travel sites, steal concert tickets, and hijack social media posts just to mess with people and fuel drama.” The original post also claims that these AI bots are getting smarter every single day. Nawfal spelled the source as “The Straight Times” rather than “The Straits Times”, which could have been an automatic correction from an AI-powered spellchecker.

Willy Woo responded, saying that he is “a pixelated cartoon character.” In his turn, the crypto trader questioned whether the person behind Elon Musk’s account is real and not an AI bot: “How do I know you’re not a machine?”

I’m a pixelated cartoon character.

How do I know you’re not a machine?

— Willy Woo (@woonomic) May 27, 2025

Other commentators responded en-masse that each of them was real.

Musk is known for supporting a partly joke and non-scientific theory that we live in a what may well be a virtual reality or a “simulation” as he calls it. Once asked by Lex Fridman, Musk said that at Tesla and SpaceX, they frequently run simulations to see what outcome can be reached, because they do not know what is going to happen as a result of a process.

Therefore, Musk reckons, those who built the simulation which we might be living in, do not possess any ultimate knowledge, and they are also modelling a process of life with consciousness to see what will happen eventually.

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