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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by wwweston on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:46PM (#18729905)
"Credulous" is the boring existing term, I think.

I might enjoy "barnummark" or "candidable."

Some might use the term "optimist" in this sense. Whether it's fair or unfair to call them cynics is left as an exercise for the reader.

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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by whatshisface on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:04PM (#18730047)
None of those words have the same bite, in that they don't imply the belief is unfounded and probably wrong.
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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by ringshall on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:53PM (#18731304)
Credulous does, at least to me. I've always considered it a pejorative term.
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Re:Amazon Sends 1,700 Alexa Voice Recordings to a Random Person by Izkata on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:02PM (#18730381)
Maybe "naive belief"? Almost rhymes, too, so easy to say/remember.
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