The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fake IDs

Re:The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fa... by Mobil1 on Monday February 05, 2024 @09:56AM (#39261832)

https://www.404media.co/email/7ba8cca7-96d2-487d-a1e3-5cc0de...

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Re:The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fa... by godelski on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:43PM (#39264053)

I was kinda surprised to find that only one paragraph was hidden. That's extremely annoying when they're just email mining. Thanks.

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Re:The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fa... by sharkjacobs on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:09PM (#39266423)

https://www.404media.co/why-404-media-needs-your-email-addre...

> In December, we noticed that articles we spent significant amounts of time on ... were being scraped by bots, run through an AI article “spinner” or paraphraser, and republished on random websites.

> Requiring an email address to read our articles has, for the moment, stopped our content from being scraped and repurposed by AI.

JAN 26, 2024 AT 9:36 AM

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Re:The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fa... by alx__ on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:56PM (#39264259)

Did you read the article? There's way more than "one"

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Re:The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fa... by dang on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:18PM (#39265672)

"Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that.""

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fa... by notwhereyouare on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:19PM (#39264636)

for me, the article cut off after this paragraph:

OnlyFake lets essentially anyone generate fake IDs in minutes that may seem real enough to bypass various online verification systems. Or at least fool some people

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Re:The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fa... by godelski on Monday February 05, 2024 @01:32PM (#39264901)

I was just commenting on the difference of what I see between the two links. Here's what I see

Blocked by Signup: https://i.imgur.com/vrkQ8rS.png

Unblocked: https://i.imgur.com/R74nUPt.png

(This post was edited after Dang's comment)

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Re:The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fa... by dang on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:19PM (#39265683)

> I'm really not sure why you're upset and accusatory. What a weird thing to lie about,

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. I know the GP was provocative, but your comment would be fine without those bits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fa... by godelski on Monday February 05, 2024 @03:06PM (#39266384)

You're right. I edited my comment to be more appropriate and disclosed the fact that it was edited. Thank you for the prod, sometimes we get caught in the moment.

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Re:The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fa... by dang on Monday February 05, 2024 @04:07PM (#39267185)

Appreciated!

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Re:The Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fa... by mondobe on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:31PM (#39263856)

Lol... interesting how they only lock half of a paragraph behind a subscribe-wall.

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