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Conspiracy #1

(Posted 17:43:23 on 26th March 2023 by Rag)
Time to sidetrack from the main topic for a bit. I've made note in prior weeks that something strange has been happening with the voting and it seems that someone or something has been dropping a vote in for every answer that was provided as an option. Well, the page that was being accessed is that from the vote email, so, it would be reasonable to assume that the who or what had access to the email. The thing that is weird is that there's a measure in place to prevent multiple votes from the same IP address, therefore whoever or whatever was posting had the ability to change their IP address as the votes were not being registered under a different name per IP. Next, the access logs show where the votes were being registered from and all of them had the hostname of “cache.google.com”.

Sidetrack from the sidetrack - I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but if two of us go to YouTube with the same link to watch a video, we are not watching the same video unless we are living in close proximity to each other. Popular videos are sent to cache sites around the world to allow people fast access to anything that is trending, otherwise you'd have to wait ages for the video to load because multiple people would be trying to access the same file on the same IP address at the same time and you'd hit a bandwidth problem. This is achieved through the use of cache sites.

Ah, now you're getting there. So, whatever has been voting has access to connect through the cache sites to my site. Now, I may be wrong here, but what seems to have been happening is a vote comes in, then access to another vote is attempted and the message “a vote has already been registered from this IP address” is provided and then the vote is registered from a different IP. Kind of makes me think that Google has been testing Bard on my vote question which, if true, is absolutely hilarious to me, cus it ain't gonna find no intelligence here. But it does prove that AI has the ability to make an action and then adjust in a very sophisticated way to events that it encounters. It's also interesting that the mystery voting stopped when Bard went public.
3 comments
Mr Blobby
04:11:39
27th March 2023
Shakespeare and the Google chat AI walk into a pub. The landlord says "Get out, you're both Bard"
Rag
20:40:53
27th March 2023
I’m trying to decide whether to get behind Google’s chat AI or join a team of bank robbers. I’m stuck weighing up the prose and cons.
Rag
20:49:46
27th March 2023
What do you get if you cross Google’s chat AI with a Harley Davidson? A Minstrel Cycle

 

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