Crime & Safety

Bay Area Crosswalk Signals Hacked With AI Messages Impersonating Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg

Bulou Varanisese was one of many people who saw the videos trending on social media, but she was skeptical that it was real.

(CBS Bay Area)

April 14, 2025

This weekend, crosswalk signals in several Peninsula cities were hacked.

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Instead of telling people to wait for the light to change colors, there were AI-generated messages impersonating Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

There were reports of the AI messages in Menlo Park, Redwood City and Palo Alto.

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