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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 semiquaver »

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.

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

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Post by ectospheno »

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.

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.

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

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Post by mattas »

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.

This really sounds like an AI voice agent transcribed "Thirty Seconds to Mars" to "30 seconds for Bruno Mars" and then no one actually proof-read the thing.

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

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Post by ArmadilloGang »

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.

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Post by jacquesm »

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?

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

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Post by jacquesm »

ArmadilloGang wrote: post #25
2ndorderthought wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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Nothing you can't fix with some spray paint.

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

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Post by Mashimo »

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.

Probably like the children game "Broken Telephone" or "Gossip" where after a long chain of word of mouth input does no longer match output. Sprinkle communication between different companies on top of that.

Thirty Seconds to Mars -> "The Mars band" -> ?? -> Bruno Mars

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