the theory that someone used AI to develop an advantage in a prediction market is entirely plausible. The Numbers experience shows us that:
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We now live in a world where a movie statistics website is worth hacking because prediction markets empower anyone to turn almost any data into money.
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Hacking websites is now something anyone can do with a cheap AI subscription.
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The web, as we have it, is incredibly fragile in the face of large-scale swarms of agentic AI bots.
Google crawls about five pages for every visitor it sends you. OpenAI crawls over 1,000. Anthropic crawls over 38,000 pages for every single visitor it refers.
— Read on stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all
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