Re:ChatGPT leaks real phone IMEI codes
by smeej on Monday June 19, 2023 @02:26PM
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What's your point? Everything that randomly generates numbers of appropriate length could hit a real one eventually. It's not a "leak," especially because it's not even for an iPhone, as requested.
Re:ChatGPT leaks real phone IMEI codes
by ksaj on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @10:05PM
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It's not news unless it is regular. Try it a bunch of times and see how the "4 out of 5" stands up. It very well might. Or you might also not ever find another one. You won't know until you try it.
Put it this way: you can find the same sequence of numbers in the decimal digits of pi. That's not news - that's the definition of random in action.
It would be news if it was predictable and repeatable, but until someone tries it enough times to rule out it having been a total fluke, we'll never know.
You really should should re-ask it a few times to see. And then if it's not a fluke, try with a prng to see if the results are similar.
It may very well not be a ChatGPT thing, but an easily guessable thing just by stringing random numbers together.
This isn't news.
This isn't news.
Put it this way: you can find the same sequence of numbers in the decimal digits of pi. That's not news - that's the definition of random in action.
It would be news if it was predictable and repeatable, but until someone tries it enough times to rule out it having been a total fluke, we'll never know.