Hacker News with Generative AI: Deception

Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books (arstechnica.com)
On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published an advertorial summer reading list containing at least 10 fake books attributed to real authors, according to multiple reports on social media.

News, Media, Deception, Chicago, Summer

27 points by pyridines 3 days ago | 0 comments

Astroturfing (wikipedia.org)
Astroturfing is the deceptive practice of hiding the sponsors of an orchestrated message or organization (e.g., political, economic, advertising, religious, or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from, and is supported by, unsolicited grassroots participants.

Deception, Public Relations, Marketing, Social Engineering, Political Campaigns

7 points by cl3misch 4 days ago | 1 comments

North Korean IT workers have infiltrated the Fortune 500 (yahoo.com)
Fortune 500 companies have unwittingly hired thousands of software engineers who claim to be American developers but are actually North Korean citizens using stolen or fake identities.

Cybersecurity, North Korea, Employment, Deception, Software Engineering

145 points by cwwc 46 days ago | 153 comments

Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself (2019) (nytimes.com)
Peter Navarro, a top White House trade adviser, has developed a reputation in Washington as a Rasputin-like China hawk who whispers anti-China musings in President Trump’s ear.

Politics, Media, Deception

135 points by amarcheschi 47 days ago | 103 comments

Ask HN: Nvidia pretended their robot was not remote controlled – why? (ycombinator.com)
When Musk used actors in robot suits or demoed remote-controlled robots without admitting they weren’t real, I was genuinely confused.

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Deception, Technology, Public Perception

22 points by ionwake 63 days ago | 7 comments

The Lie That Facebook Sold You (havenweb.org)
Facebook should be those things. It used to and it even pretends to still be those things–but it isn’t. That’s the lie that gets you in the door, and then Facebook uses every nasty trick it can to do one thing: keep you scrolling.

Social Media, Facebook, Manipulation, Deception, Business

14 points by mawise 76 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: LLMs Playing Mafia games – See them lie, deceive, and reason (opennumbers.xyz)
GitHub

AI, Games, Social Interaction, Deception

42 points by uncanny_guzus 78 days ago | 24 comments

Tell HN: Uptimerobot.com offers a fake free plan (ycombinator.com)
Hey HN, I am using uptimerobot.com for some years now through its free plan. It monitors some hobby-non really important projects. The same plan is advertised here: https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/<p>However, before some days I got the following email: "From 1st November 2024, our Free Plan is for non-commercial use only. If you're using it for business, you'll need to upgrade to a paid plan and now they are forcing me to update."

Free Software, Business, Uptime Monitoring, Deception

14 points by spapas82 178 days ago | 28 comments

Boeing Wonderland: The Fake Cities on America's West Coast (2013) (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
Through clever visual trickery, vital West Coast warplane plants were made invisible to prying enemy aerial eyes.

History, Military, Photography, Deception

129 points by NaOH 199 days ago | 41 comments

Scientists developed a novel method to detect lies (universal-sci.com)
Can you spot a liar? Although almost all of us tell a lie once in a while, we are remarkably bad at consistently and accurately spotting them.

Science, Deception, Psychology

18 points by lapnect 208 days ago | 21 comments

Elderly dementia patients are unwittingly fueling political campaigns (cnn.com)
A CNN investigation reveals how deceptive political fundraising has misled elderly Americans into giving away millions of dollars

Politics, Elderly, Deception, Fundraising, Investigations

122 points by atlasunshrugged 213 days ago | 180 comments

The Optimus robots at Tesla's Cybercab event were humans in disguise (theverge.com)
Tesla made sure its Optimus robots were a big part of its extravagant, in-person Cybercab reveal last week. The robots mingled with the crowd, served drinks to and played games with guests, and danced inside a gazebo. Seemingly most surprisingly, they could even talk. But it was mostly just a show.

Robotics, Tesla, Events, Deception

117 points by achristmascarl 222 days ago | 120 comments

Tesla's Beer-Serving Optimus Robot Was Controlled by a Human the Whole Time (jalopnik.com)
Tesla’s big autonomy event last night was mainly focused around the two-seat Cybercab and art deco city bus Robovan, but the company also talked about some updates to Optimus — the painfully slow robot that Elon Musk hopes will be an infinite money glitch for the company. The event’s afterparty heavily featured Optimus as a bartender and dancer, but it turns out the bot wasn’t doing anything itself. Tesla employees were remote controlling it the whole time.

Tesla, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Deception

93 points by toomanyrichies 224 days ago | 92 comments

Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts (bloomberg.com)
Pro bettors have taken to disguising themselves as gambling addicts so sportsbooks keep the free money flowing.

Sports Betting, Gambling, Deception, Business

251 points by JumpCrisscross 235 days ago | 299 comments

AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off (2022) (fortressofdoors.com)
What happens when most "people" you interact with on the internet are fake?

Artificial Intelligence, Internet, Social Media, Deception

111 points by sebg 249 days ago | 132 comments

OnlyFans' porn juggernaut fueled by a deception (reuters.com)

Social Media, Business, Controversy, Deception

59 points by achow 285 days ago | 104 comments

AI can strategically lie to humans. Are we in trouble? (bigthink.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Deception

6 points by elashri 308 days ago | 0 comments

When whimsical wildlife photography isn't what it seems (pbs.org)