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Although the note’s authenticity has not been established, it contains an apparent reference to a line from a 1931 Little Rascals film that Epstein had used in at least two email messages, according to the trove of Epstein documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice this year in response to the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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[–] morysal@lemmy.world 54 points 2 weeks ago

No matter what the final conclusion is, this case has been surrounded by so many powerful people, contradictions, and years of public distrust that half the internet was never going to believe any official explanation anyway.

[–] cmbabul@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I bet these idiots fed an AI all his emails to get make it sound more like him

[–] rozodru@piefed.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

bingo. lets see how many emdashes are in the note.

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

the problem with that is Epstein did use em dashes in his emails, or at least double hyphens supposed to be em dashes

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter with an LLM. I've had it give me em dashes when I specifically told it not to.

[–] BlitzFitz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I had told mine to remove emdashes and it had an emdash in the rule to no longer re use emdashes. I commented on it and Claude found it amusing lol

[–] rozodru@piefed.world -2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you know at this point it wouldn't surprise me if LLMs were trained on his crap specifically. I mean apparently game microtransactions with like CoD were his idea, 4chans /pol/ was his idea, all the other crap that we now deal with were his ideas. ALL the bullshit we deal with today can pretty much be directly attributed to this ass clown.

[–] Aatube@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

None.

ALL the bullshit we deal with today can pretty much be directly attributed to this ass clown.

Is wishful, conspiratorial thinking designed to simplify a staggeringly complex and scary world into one where a great, singularizing evil has caused all of this.

I'm probably going to have to keep bringing this up given Lemmy's appalling tendency toward unsubstantiated "contradictory evidence is only evidence of how deep the conspiracy goes!!" thinking (see: this one, where evidence that it's Epstein's writing is actually evidence that they trained an LLM on Epstein's writing, roping anti-AI into it too*), but Dan Olson's video essay "In Search Of A Flat Earth" discusses this kind of simplifying thinking to a T when describing QAnon.

There was a now-removed post earlier on /c/politics with like a 45:5 upvote ratio from some random dipshit's Substack claiming (with zero real substance or qualifications) to analyze the note and conclude that it was written by Donald Trump himself. The average Lemmy user, like most people on social media, are intellectually lazy idiots.


* Edit: I just want to point out that by 2019 standards, training and using an LLM to convincingly fake a suicide note from a specific person by compiling their previous correspondences and shoving them into an LSTM or a relatively new transformer model would be vastly more difficult (intellectually and effort-wise, and probably with worse results) than just fucking reading some of the previous correspondences and deliberately throwing in some writing quirks. That may not be what happened, but if you're going to believe it wasn't Epstein's writing, don't be a total fucking moron about it: at least believe something vaguely plausible.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even if he killed himself he shouldn't have been able to and there was likely a conspiracy to enable it.

[–] Ashenlux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly, even if he killed himself, that doesn't rule out the possibility that he was being pressured/forced to. Those powerful monsters he hung out with and surrounded himself with wouldn't want a lose end like him sitting around.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

That note is fake as hell

[–] Rusticus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Who cares? He’s dead he’s not dead. He wrote it he didn’t write it. We all want fucking justice for the child raping!!!!

[–] CritFail@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

cough Palm Beach Pete cough