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Graham Perrin @[email protected] · 2026-04-26 · 06:49 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@patrickcmiller/116467048166124126

This looks tasty. Smells tasty. Jessica Lyons writes convincingly, and amusingly, about AI – "nothingburger", and so on.

Let's take a bite! It's possible that Lyons fell victim to clickbait with her story twenty-four hours later – an "exclusive" with supposed victim Turshija (Boris Vujičić):

<https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/job_scam_targeted_developer/> | <https://web.archive.org/web/20260423222731/https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/23/job_scam_targeted_developer/>

Eagle-eyed commentary: <https://forums.theregister.com/forum/1/2026/04/23/job_scam_targeted_developer/#c_5266435> – if I'm not mistaken, the tale told exclusively to Lyons by Vujičić (tweets from 19:28 UTC on 22nd April) is an embellishment of the report that was made three hours earlier by Adib Hanna:

― <https://nitter.net/adibhanna/status/2046988777789555191> (16:25 UTC), with <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA7PsdI0zs8> the next day.

The community note at Vujičić's tweet:

＂Clickbait copying a real life story with receipts from the day prior, apparently embellished and lengthened with AI.＂

So.

Can we, should we, believe everything that we read?

Food for thought burger.

#AI #clickbait #nothingburger

Cc @patrickcmiller @Kierkegaanks @simonzerafa

Postscript (copied from Reddit): "Without wishing to appear unkind: this may be another case of early reporting not being the best reporting. I'm not ungrateful; the story that preceded discovery by The Register was informative (but clumsy―it may have harmed innocent victims). "

#ai #clickbait #nothingburger