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Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

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263 points josephcsible | 5 comments | 07 Dec 25 00:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.392s | source
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crazygringo ◴[07 Dec 25 02:01 UTC] No.46178534[source]▶
To be clear, you don't need AI for this.

You can also just call the railroad and report the bridge as damaged.

Hoaxes and pranks and fake threats have been around forever.

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1. add-sub-mul-div ◴[07 Dec 25 02:33 UTC] No.46178664[source]▶
You also don't need gunpowder to kill someone with projectiles, but gunpowder changed things in important ways. All I ever see are the most specious knee-jerk defenses of AI that immediately fall apart.
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2. Ukv ◴[07 Dec 25 03:11 UTC] No.46178821[source]▶
It's not clear to me that it "changed things in important ways" in this case if a call alleging serious damage to the rail would've similarly triggered a pause for inspection.
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3. defrost ◴[07 Dec 25 03:15 UTC] No.46178842[source]▶
A phone call to railway management claiming stone fall on a track, a dead cow, a stalled car, etc will trigger a slowdown on that line, a call to the driver, and an inspection.

If that's not happening then management is playing fast and loose with legal responsibility and the risks of mass and inertia.

4. j_maffe ◴[07 Dec 25 08:39 UTC] No.46180176[source]▶
It's not about the possibility, it's about probability. People are posting more fake images and videos than ever before. More is categorically different.
5. maplethorpe ◴[07 Dec 25 09:46 UTC] No.46180478[source]▶
What you're probably failing to grasp is that all technology is good, and AI is technology, therefore AI is good. Notable examples are the printing press and the automobile. Would you prefer a world without those things? How ridiculous!

Please ignore "technology" such as leaded gasoline and CFCs. No one could have known those were harmful, anyway.