Seems more like it just hallucinated the number of someone who happened to have WhatsApp than it shared someone’s number but not surprising.
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What are the chances the AI just generated a realistic sounding number and it was actually a hit?
So a random person on Reddit claimed there's about 800 million possible uk mobile numbers, some people have multiple numbers so ballpark 80 million active phone numbers. This gives around a 1:10 chance of picking an active number at random. If there's actual patterns in the numbers this could be even more likely.
What's interesting is this won't have been a realistic sounding number.
Company lines typically start 0300 or 0800 but mobiles are 07... Something.
So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.
What’s interesting is this won’t have been a realistic sounding number.
Company lines typically start 0300 or 0800 but mobiles are 07… Something.
So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.
Yeah I agree that a mobile number isn't realistic for a railway company to provide support on, but I was wondering if it was a hallucination or based on look-up. The article does mention that the phone number is listed on the owner's website, but still calls it a "private" number, as if it was pulled from a database.
So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.
You say that as if there's any other way.
I love when articles tell me how to feel, takes all the thinking out of the equation. Now I know I should be shaking in my boots. Phew.
I really don't think generating a random phone number can be considered "terrifying"...