It's been fairly obvious that he's been trying to find a way out or to renegotiate the deal after the recent pullback in tech valuations, and is grasping at the bot claims as an attempted excuse to do so.
With Musk it's hard to know exactly what his plan is, but I think it's an attempt to either find a way to back out, reduce the overall price, or otherwise cause chaos as an intentional strategy.
No psychiatrist would diagnose someone based on public performances, and non-psychiatrists using pop-psychology to do so is very unpleasant.
This is a wider cultural trend too. The prevalence of Dunning-Kruger pop-psychology YouTube videos (again made by people with zero medical degree) nowadays "teaching" people to recognize "Narcissism", "Psychopathy", "Mania", "Manipulation" etc. is absolutely vile. Just teach people assertiveness and leave it at that.
Especially given the big pitch was that he'd clean up the bots. If there are loads of bots, that would make it easy to get a cheap win and look like a hero.
if you can get the company to do things you think are valuable before you’re making interest payments on money you borrowed to buy it, that makes a lot of sense.
It’s not like flipping a switch, how matters, as does following up on effectiveness and so on. I would think someone planning to run the company would want to do it right…
