alt Hacker NewsWould love to read specific examples of "the same trick being used to dismiss health concerns about medical supplements or influence financial information provided by Google's AI about retirement", but the relevant link in the article currently goes to
file:///Users/GermaTW1/BBC%20Dropbox/Thomas%20Germain/A%20Downloads%20and%20Documents/2026/And%20there's%20evidence%20that%20AI%20tools%20are%20being%20manipulated%20on%20a%20wide%20scale.
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sparqlittlestar • yesterday at 6:56 PM
I've only ever had `first.last@company` as a username or email address, so this `last[:5]initials#` scheme is bewildering. Must lead to strange looking usernames.
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There's been a few mistakes like this recently in BBC articles and more troubling is they've stopped adding notes to indicate they've made revisions to the published article when they fix them.