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OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by hvb2 »

abirch wrote: post #7
_verandaguy wrote: post #2

An outstanding move for a company claiming to sell trust as a service.

Offtopic but you've triggered my rant What is frustrating to me is the IRS was scammed. They sent my refund to some identity thief. This from an institution that if I owed them 10 cents, they could track down all of my financial accounts but they decide to deposit in some rando's account.

I mean, the US is the country that doesn't want a national id.

So instead the defacto ID is your SSN. This was never designed with that in mind, lacks all security mechanisms/checksums and all.

And if you were born before a certain time, all digits except the last few were determined by where you were born. And those last digits are the ones they frequently ask for...

This is all just choices guys.

Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by MagicMoonlight »

Lionga wrote: post #20

You are right to call that out. Do you want me to remove all the press releases over the internet of our fake partnership with Bruno Mars?

Thoughts: - The user is challenging me on our partnership with Bruno Mars, but factual sources including presentation material and trusted websites all confirm it. - I need to square the circle and handle the user’s distrust, without lying and pretending that we aren’t partnered with Bruno Mars

Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by renegade-otter »

steve1977 wrote: post #17

Hallucinated a partnership...

That may be true. If they use LLms to write up all of their internal documents, it may have just pulled a "partnership" out of thin air, and no one bothered to check. "I guess we have one!"

Brought to you by - Looks Good To Me(tm).

Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by nemomarx »

Mashimo wrote: post #31
abirch wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Offtopic but you've triggered my rant What is frustrating to me is the IRS was scammed. They sent my refund to some identity thief. This from an institution that if I owed them 10 cents, they could track down all of my financial accounts but they decide to deposit in some rando's account.

> They sent my refund to some identity thief. How does that currently work? In DK they just send it to your "nem konto", the same bank account that also gets your wages. More or less a sym link, so even if you move bank it will follow. Makes life easy.

when you file your tax paperwork each year you have to tell them which bank account to send the refund to.

if someone else can file for you they can put in whatever info they like, so.

Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by cryptonym »

rvz wrote: post #30

You all just got rage-baited here. One side of this story is not telling the truth. Don't fall for it.

rage-baited? I think it's pretty clear to everyone they did a mistake due to lexical proximity with their actual partnership.

Re: OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership

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Post by sergiotapia »

thevillagechief wrote: post #40

Lately I’m realizing what an absolute drain imposter syndrome is. I see things like this and I think maybe I could jump three levels up into a completely different department and be just fine, at least for a while. Then maybe fail up?

History belongs to the people who show up.

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Post by ryandrake »

thevillagechief wrote: post #40

Lately I’m realizing what an absolute drain imposter syndrome is. I see things like this and I think maybe I could jump three levels up into a completely different department and be just fine, at least for a while. Then maybe fail up?

Most of us here could easily do the day-to-day work of the CEO of our companies. Somehow we have adopted this corporate mysticism that tells us that people with CxO or SVP in their titles are somehow smarter, more skilled, more qualified than the rank-and-file, but I don't think it's true. They eat and shit just like we do.
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