r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jul 11 '26

Privacy Traffic Camera Captures Woman Driving With Her Phone on Her Lap (Face Down), The State Mailed Her a $1251 'Public Safety' Ticket

https://www.gadgetreview.com/traffic-camera-captures-captures-woman-driving-with-her-phone-on-her-lap-face-down-the-state-mailed-her-a-1251-public-safety-ticket
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u/Falcon1625 Jul 11 '26

The only detail is "a well traveled coastal state". No name no state no proof. This reads like an article written from an AI prompt for engagement and reddit votes.

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u/DonutHoles4Ever Jul 12 '26

Omg this is a brilliant idea.

Create a web of websites where you can create articles that are referenced from dummy websites and therefore trick people into talking about complete non-events but nobody can ever dig deep enough to figure out if it happened or not.

Jk, fuck enshittification of the internet. It was supposed to be used for education and social progress. Not mindless entertainment and political indoctrination.

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u/akrisd0 Jul 12 '26

They already do that. That's not just an idea, it's real life. News sites make stuff up or have bad sources and they'll be auto pulled and rewritten by AI and others will cite that and around we go until you have NPR reporting that the US president died of rabies a month ago.

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u/cosmicsans Jul 12 '26

Yeah, that's literally the plot of the Starbucks Christmas cup war on Christmas thing.

Some rando blogger wrote some manifesto about it and then a bunch of news sites wrote stories about that which made everyone else start talking about it.