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In 1930, a business named Agloe Lodge Farms was incorporated, [2] which acquired a fishing lodge in the area and renamed it Agloe Lodge. [3] Members of the Nead family, which sold the land to Agloe Lodge Farms, told the Times Herald-Record in 2016 that the land had been sold for $1, and that they suspected the company was actually a front for ...
Phantom settlements often result from copyright traps, also known as mountweazels, which is when a false entry is placed in literature to catch illegal copiers. [2] Agloe, New York, was invented on a 1930s map as a copyright trap. In 1950, a general store was built there and named Agloe General Store, as that was the name seen on the map.
The fake tip, which purported to make a rabbit appear on the computer screen when certain keys were pressed, did indeed appear in subsequent works. [10] In addition to the 1975 New Columbia Encyclopedia entry on Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, the editors created another fictitious entry concerning the purported blind American artist, Robert ...
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks, typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets. [1] [2] [3]
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok on Tuesday began allowing users to create AI-generated images from text prompts and post them to X. Almost immediately, people began using the tool to flood the ...
A parody of Manhattan, New York City, New York. Maple Town Maple Town: Toei Animation: Fictional town with anthropomorphic animal townspeople. Marzipan City Chowder: CN: Marzipan City is a fictional food-themed town. Marzipan City sits upon an orphaned chunk of earth which is held up by a giant deity known as Hunk, a parody of Atlas. Megadale ...
In February, OpenAI announced that it had developed an algorithm that could write believable fake news and spam. Deciding that power was too dangerous to unleash, OpenAI planned a staged release ...
The 1979 science fiction novel The Ultimate Enemy by Fred Saberhagen includes the short story "The Annihilation of Angkor Apeiron" in which a salesman allows a draft of a new Encyclopedia Galactica to be captured by alien war machines. It leads them to believe there is a nearby planet ripe for attack, but the planet is actually a copyright trap ...