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Posted on 07/02/2026 1:44:15 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
I thought I had missed something major in my reporting. Turns out I had stumbled into an AI-fueled feedback loop that involved a real LLC’s fictional website and a search engine that’s thrusting unreliable answers on users.
Last month, my colleagues and I published an investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First Refining, that had secretly gotten investment from Donald Trump Jr. We discovered a saga involving the Trump administration’s tariff policy, sanctioned Russian oil and an Indian billionaire family’s private zoo.
At the center of the story was the CEO of the refinery company, Texas businessman John Calce. We’d spent weeks examining Calce — pulling old lawsuits, property records, corporate registry filings — and had pieced together a portrait of what appeared to be an obscure serial entrepreneur who’d for years tried and failed to secure funding for his long-shot refinery project.
Then, not long before our story was set to publish, we decided to do a scrub on a separate company he had incorporated called Brownsville Energy Storage Terminals.
Pulling up the company’s website, I felt a brief flash of panic: Had we somehow missed the existence of a major business owned by the man at the center of our next story?
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It’s been a long time since I’ve had a good a Seasoned Reporter Spiral.
There’s a reason archive.org lost all the backed up internet website data a few years ago - getting ready for Day Zero.
ProPublica reporter duped? Dog bites man.
There is a lot more noise out there. We need better journalists. Do not hold your breath.
as in “the drain”?
Gemini:
The Takeaway for the Modern Internet
As AI tools make it effortless to spin up realistic corporate entities, a fancy website and a high search-engine ranking no longer equal legitimacy. The only way to avoid being fooled is to treat digital data as “guilty until proven innocent” and verify it against public registries, physical phone calls, and boots-on-the-ground reality.
They've been selectively editing it anyway.
My 37 year old nephew died of sarcoma a couple of years ago, a formerly rare cancer.
His memorial asked for donations to the Sarcoma Foundation of America.
https://curesarcoma.org/?form=Sarcoma-Awareness-Month
When I went there it said that the COVID-19 was a possible cause of sarcoma. My nephew's sarcoma started on his left shoulder at the exact spot he had gotten the "vaccination."
When I went there a couple of months later the reference was gone, and it was scrubbed from the Wayback Machine when I went there looking for it.
There’s another problem I have seen. If the agent does not know the answer to your query it won’t say “Sorry Dave, I do not know the answer to that.” Rather it will grab something it sees a “close” to the answer and try to palm it off. So if you ask Gemini “What are the memory population guidelines for an HPE DL385 Gen 11?” It didn’t know know because it was brand new so it will provide the guidelines for a Gen 10, which are not correct for Gen 11. Cannot trust them.
CORRECTION: It said the COVID-19 VACCINE was a possible cause.
Negative prompting is not just a thing, it’s a necessary thing for speed, accuracy, and (where you’re paying for capacity) efficiency.
Has this “seasoned reporter” ever created a real piece of investigative journalism, or always relied on internet searches, fake news stories from other “seasoned reporters,” and unidentified sources wishing to remain anonymous?
Tell me you didn’t read the story without telling me you didn’t read the story.
Seems like they were ready to publish the story without actually talking to anyone who knows the guy.
They intend for AI to subtly rewrite the past, changing online narratives and skewing them for their NWO globalist messaging, all roads lead to Agenda 2030 and anti-Christ.
Agentic AI bots are already everywhere spewing slop onto forums and social media.
The truth is about to become only what they tell us it is, not what we can remember.
“So if you ask Gemini “What are the memory population guidelines for an HPE DL385 Gen 11?” It didn’t know know because it was brand new so it will provide the guidelines for a Gen 10, which are not correct for Gen 11. Cannot trust them.”
The memory population guidelines for the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen 11 mandate using DDR5 ECC Registered DIMMs (RDIMMs) across 24 slots (12 DIMM slots per processor, 1 DIMM per channel) to support AMD EPYC 9004/9005 series processors.
Key population rules include:
Symmetric Balance: Memory configurations must be identical and balanced symmetrically between CPU 1 and CPU 2.
Slot Order: Always populate the primary (white) DIMM slots first.
Mixing Restrictions: * Do not mix LRDIMMs or persistent memory (not supported).
Do not mix different memory speeds, capacities, or ranks.
Do not mix x4 and x8 memory types.
Do not mix standard RDIMMs with 3DS RDIMMs.
Channel Interleaving: For optimal performance, populate either 12 DIMMs per processor (full 12-channel bandwidth) or use supported balanced configurations (e.g., 2, 4, 8, or 12 DIMMs per CPU).
Would you like the exact slot installation sequence for a specific number of DIMMs?
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