3/31/2025 at 6:56:08 PM
Is this article more LLM-generated junk?The very prominent statistic they use close to the beginning of the article is both confidently and spectacularly incorrect in a way that should have been obvious even to someone doing a cursory skim of the text:
"For instance, there was the National Public Data (NPD) breach in 2024. This catastrophic incident exposed the sensitive personal information of nearly 2.9 billion US, Canadian, and British citizens. "
If you sum up the populations of those three countries, you don't even get to 500 million people, never mind 2.9 billion.
by tharne
3/31/2025 at 7:26:09 PM
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-13/hacker-cla...So it turns out the numbers are all valid. With or without AI they just misinterpreted the data. But indeed 2.9 billion records were stolen, whoever wrote this just clearly misunderstood that an individual could have more than 1 record associated to their person.
by bobs_salsa
3/31/2025 at 11:06:59 PM
no, they have one record, of 2.9 billion records bieng stollen. It is absolutely true that many records that are stolen, are not recorded, as such. There is no record of what, is recorded. This has the possibility of becoming, a record for ,well deserved, adsurdityby metalman
3/31/2025 at 7:34:52 PM
Ahhh...that makes a lot more sense. I hope they fix that.by tharne