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Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

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263 points josephcsible | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 00:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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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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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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1. 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.