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A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the tale of Otto Z

59 points • by Hooke • last Saturday at 3:02 PM • 21 comments • view on HN

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jacquesm • today at 3:46 PM

No spoilers here, that is a worthy read, I never saw the turns coming.

teddyh • today at 6:47 PM

> Carbon dating corroborated these claims – […] was produced no earlier than 2015

I was not aware that carbon dating could be this accurate.

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wbeckler • today at 3:33 PM

Proof that nonfiction is wilder than fiction.

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weinzierl • today at 5:19 PM

This was before AI and certainly must have been quite an effort to pull off plausibly. Imagine what is possible now.

Invent an alternative history in an afternoon or two and gaslight the gullible into your version of reality. I wait for the day where a company is ordered to hand out their communication to a court and instead of doing so hands out an AI invented but plausible one.

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northisup • today at 4:02 PM

I feel like the guardian shouldn't be messing up the oxford comma like that.

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delichon • today at 4:52 PM

Conspiracy theorists, unlike normal people, find it easy to believe that people will expend enormous effort to create an illusion. I'd like to take this opportunity to say we told you so.

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