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Fake trending crime stories based on misinterpreted viral trends - and the content remains posted for over 5 hours despite being immediately recognizable fake news.

Elon, a free speech absolutist, who also believes that AI will be hyper intelligent in the very near future, probably doesn't want to infringe on the potentially sentient AI's free speech. Or he simply doesn't care about the truth and has understaffed Twitter to the point that there is no one available to handle these issues.

Yeah, it's easy to write this off as "haha AI being AI", but this is content posted as top trending news on the front page of one of the most visited websites in the world, one which is probably the primary news source of hundreds of millions of people. Today it is a mostly harmless sports article, tomorrow it will be about elections, geopolitics, social issues and everything else. If you were complaining about unreliable social media, watch it go on steroids in the coming years.

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