• .Donuts@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    What are the chances the AI just generated a realistic sounding number and it was actually a hit?

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      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.

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        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.

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        So if it was just hallucinating, it did so badly.

        You say that as if there’s any other way.