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Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

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Re: Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

#4

Response: https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/1638396003790249985

> The accusations of a known scammer are clearly nonsensical and should not need refuting.

Spagni stole money from a company, presumably to fund his crypto investments.

Re: Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

#6
I was curious until he started getting into technophrenology by "asking" ChatGPT for answers on why. He also does not explain how the asset tracing is even possible. Somehow, I trust the league of established papers on Monero weaknesses (none of which have successfully been used) than this.

Re: Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

#7
"outed as Interpol informant"? Really?

No idea who this guy is but if I was in his situation I would also do the same. Accusing him of being an informant over this seems a bit extreme. It is a well known fact that various law enforcement/intelligence agencies will try to establish ties with people in such positions.

Re: Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

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post #5

Looks like we are going to see this kind of investigations "asking GPT-4" to confirm or not assumptions just like we had "after a quick search on Google" for a few lusters.

There's a new oracle in Delphi.

And it's huffing gas.

Re: Monero founder outed as Interpol informant

#10

This asking GPT for inference needs to stop immediately before it becomes accepted and commonplace. This is almost the same as "I flipped a coin and the gods spoke to me"

It's far worse, because people who should know better, people who should understand at least the very basics of how the underlying algorithm works, are deluding themselves into believing it's some kind of magical oracle.
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