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Re:Proof of Corn by snowmobile on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:34PM (#46737522)
I mean, it's probably worse to pretend to be an actual customer, rather than sending some random message. The AI's obviously never going to actually lease any land, so all its doing is convincingly wasting their time. At least landlords are often quite unsympathetic, so it's probably fine to waste their time a bit.
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Re:Proof of Corn by rdlw on Friday January 23, 2026 @05:37PM (#46738945)
What do you mean? There's $1370 earmarked for the lease.
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Re:Proof of Corn by snowmobile on Friday January 23, 2026 @06:04PM (#46739195)
I mean, it hasn't even "decided" whether it's going for "Iowa, Texas or Cordoba, Argentina". Just look at the files in the repo, it's looking an awful lot like those AI transcripts where somebody's "discovered a new kind of physics". https://github.com/brightseth/proof-of-corn/blob/main/proof-...
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Re:Proof of Corn by hahahahhaah on Friday January 23, 2026 @06:07PM (#46739216)
Loving the soulless summary of "HN Concerns"
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