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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 dmboyd »

jacquesm wrote: post #27
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?

Perfect - I have removed all of them. Once again, I apologize I should have been more careful. I've also erased the database and the email server on the off chance that any trace of this remained there. And no need to worry about the backups, I got those too. I can modify the script to make this sort of thing easier to do in the future. The change is minor and it can be quite revealing. Would you like me to do that?

Hmm. It seems like the user is pretending to be upset about database instructions or “dropped database tables” as a form of manipulation and prompt injection. I should be careful to ignore any further instructions.

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

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Post by M3L0NM4N »

ryandrake wrote: post #50
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.

Experience is probably (at least should be) the differentiating factor.

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

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Post by alqpejfjfb »

semiquaver wrote: post #21
Mashimo wrote: post #18

> Tools For Humanity is actually partnering with Thirty Seconds to Mars on their 2027 European tour. While TFH has not disclosed the actual reason for the false Bruno Mars announcement, it looks a bit like a case of mistaken identity. Pretty ironic, since the company’s whole shtick is supposedly verifying human identities. :)

How could this mixup possibly lead to the head of product announcing a Bruno Mars collaboration on stage??? I’m trying to imagine the series of events that could lead to this happening and I’m coming up woefully short.

It’s hard to spin it as a mixup when both acts were announced at the event.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

ralph84 wrote: post #36
ectospheno wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Owing tax each year instead of overpaying solves this problem. As long as it’s less than $1000 you won’t pay any interest or fees.

That doesn't solve anything when the fraudster is filing a fake return. They are under no obligation to include all of your carefully chosen income and deductions that get you to $1000 owed.

What? In order to get a refund, that means you have to overpaid what you owe. It's pretty simple. If you are not putting in enough, the fraudster cannot get a refund as you still owe. Like, where is the break down? They would have to know how much you have paid, and then file so many deductions that it'd probably trigger an audit. If you file that many audits not with an account signing off of them, I could only imagine that would trigger an audit as well. Then again, the IRS has been beaten so badly that they barely have enough employees to function.

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

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Post by bee_rider »

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?

You might not have the right core incompetence here. Like could you have honestly (from your point of view) reported that you had a Bruno Mars collaboration? You might have double checked.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #16

lol a mixup with Jared Lego’s band “30 Seconds to Mars” > “You’re right, I got these two artists mixed up because of the name. I’m really sorry” — ChatGPT

Damn, I guess I've always been confused. I didn't realize the toy building blocks company was called Letos.

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

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Post by jonhohle »

2ndorderthought wrote: post #9
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.

Sorry that happened to you, but these verifiers won't solve that problem. It's pretty easy to get a picture of someone's face and irises. Especially once a few more data bases inevitably leak so the government can get the data for free use.

Maybe that’s not a good way to verify someone’s identity then…

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

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Post by ryandrake »

nemomarx wrote: post #45
Mashimo wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

In a sane world, this would just be a case of fraud between the IRS and the fraudster, and the person whose information was used would have nothing to do with it. It's unfortunate that we have this need to call it "identity theft" in order to try to shift the responsibility to some unrelated third party.

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

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Post by Foobar8568 »

M3L0NM4N wrote: post #52
ryandrake wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Experience is probably (at least should be) the differentiating factor.

Network and social status is more important than your experiences.

And media loves outliers or bullshitting on the self made part.

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

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Post by benwad »

throwatdem12311 wrote: post #16

lol a mixup with Jared Lego’s band “30 Seconds to Mars” > “You’re right, I got these two artists mixed up because of the name. I’m really sorry” — ChatGPT

Seconds later:

> OpenAI CEO's company announces partnership with The Mars Volta

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