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Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

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173 points textadventure | 4 comments | 22 Nov 24 06:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.631s | source
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piqufoh[dead post] ◴[22 Nov 24 09:09 UTC] No.42212288[source]▶
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jna_sh ◴[22 Nov 24 09:19 UTC] No.42212339[source]▶
Source for the arrest? I listened to this the other day and I don’t recall an arrest being mentioned. The podcast in fact covers that the police weren’t very much interested, which is why they got a PI involved, who got the thieves to “return” (dump in an adjacent car park) the devices simply by asking questions.
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1. saagarjha ◴[22 Nov 24 09:20 UTC] No.42212351[source]▶
I’m guessing the AI hallucinated it.
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2. gambiting ◴[22 Nov 24 09:27 UTC] No.42212389[source]▶
You know what, until your comment I haven't even considered that someone just copy pasted the entire transcript into ChatGPT and asked for a summary. It sucks - and I see that happening everywhere actually, especially in facebook groups, people are trying to be "helpful" by just copying output from ChatGPT or Gemini, but more often than not it's just completely wrong.
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3. saagarjha ◴[22 Nov 24 09:33 UTC] No.42212407[source]▶
I can’t say for sure but the thing I thought was suspicious was someone saying “The episode provides an in-depth look at the challenges Panic faced during this ordeal and the measures taken to resolve the situation”. People who actually read the content and offer TL;DRs typically wouldn’t include statements like these that are basically just fluff.
4. piqufoh ◴[22 Nov 24 11:26 UTC] No.42212929[source]▶
Yeah - I don't have an hour to listen to the podcast or read the transcript. I got an AI to summarise the article and it saved me the time, I thought someone else might appreciate the summary (and it appears they did).

Perhaps next time I'll add TL;got-an-llm-to-do-it or something