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Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

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263 points josephcsible | 2 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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ares623 ◴[07 Dec 25 02:24 UTC] No.46178636[source]▶
Again, I see this argument.

“Bad X has happened before and unsolved. Why worry about bad X^2?”

Personally I’d prefer if it remained at X so solutions can catch up. But that’s just me.

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1. xandrius ◴[07 Dec 25 03:31 UTC] No.46178913[source]▶
Yep, why give people computers? It just increases the number of bad X, before writing these type of hoaxes were much less common.
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2. theendisney ◴[07 Dec 25 05:57 UTC] No.46179494[source]▶
I see room for a platform that only does auth, reviews and perhaps indexing.

Since you didnt ask, let me needlessly elaborate.

You can have YouTube or X or Facebook "design" a web page for you but those are always extremely lame. Just have websites in stead?? Their moderation looks more like a zombie shooter. Wikipedia has some kind of internet trial but that is so unsophisticated that it might even be worse.

It could be a simple redaction with a number of seats that can be emptied when the users request it though a random selection of jurors.

The redaction makes suggestions and eventually removes your website.

The site can still be publicly available before and after, it just doesnt live in the index.