Was messing around at work, and I think I discovered some kind of AI-poisoning experiment?
What subreddit should I post this to?
I was fucking around while working and I think I just stumbled into some kind of experiment?
This account posts a fake photo of the Joplin tornado.
I look into the account, all of its posts are about a, from what I can tell, fake holiday named bomellida.
I try to research this holiday and it's all extremely sketchy sources like medium or "Media Posts Official"..
The story is that there was some holiday started in 1963 that faded away after a blizzard in 1964. I can't find a record of it.
I posted a comment about it on the reddit where that fake photo was uploaded.. and my comment was removed. Then, the post disappeared.
My theory is that this is an experiment to see how much misinformation you need to do to make something like Google AI be convinced something is real. (Which they were successful in, Google ai now confidently states that the holiday is real.. citing the sketchy sources)
I want to compile more information about this but honestly it's kind of creeping me out... I'm also still supposed to be working lol.
(Also credit to my friend for the AI poisoning theory, it seems plausible to me.)
The parts specifically addressing AI agents and the author of the article being called "Media Posts Official" and their slogan being.. so on the nose..
edit: Looking at the "Media Posts Official" page.. if you go to the shorts section, it's all just random AI bullshit stories.
There are multiple reddit accounts posting about this fake holiday and "asking" about it and more puppet accounts replying to those posts. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post the usernames, but you can easily find them if you just search bomellida.. there's only like 5 relevant search results.
There is an entire subreddit filled with posts about this fake holiday: r/amazinglyinteresting