I made a joke to my wife that it would be hilarious if whomever was redacting these documents failed to flatten the markups, or just used the black highlighter tool- which it seems that’s what happened, allowing anyone to just undo it in the PDF.
ajthebeast on
This is why I love sleuths
slonobruh on
Perhaps that was the point?!
tylagersign on
I seen it also referred as hacking. It’s just copy and pasting to a new word doc
EntrepreneurWaste579 on
Do you really think this was a mistake?Â
butareyouthough on
That’s what happens when you use ChatGPT to edit millions of documents. It’s gonna find the easiest and simplest way to get it done.
flossingly on
Has anyone uploaded the unredacted files or shared anything interesting found in the redactions yet? I want to look myself but don’t have access to a laptop currently and it’s a pain in the butt trying to do that on a mobile phone.
Also, good work sleuths!!
FroHawk98 on
CtrlC/CtrlV hackers in 2025
chcor70 on
I mean the first thing they teach you in a law firm is when you react documents you print them out and then scan them to ever prevent this from ever happening. First year associates learn this almost instantly
svensk on
This exact thing happened 10-20 years ago with some other pdf redactions, no way it was NOT intentional this time.
AlertThinker on
I’m laughing so hard I’m wheezing.
Nonimouses on
Me personally I’d have kept quiet about it, don’t interrupt your enemy while they’re making a mistake and all that, announcing this will likely make someone sit up and take notice and correct their error or root out those engaging in malicious compliance
Tremolat on
Why is the focus on the method? What’s important is what these “sleuths” learned. Failing to see any new revelations, this feels like a nothingburger.
wesweb on
The tragedy here will be the admin properly redacting future releases because they found out.
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I made a joke to my wife that it would be hilarious if whomever was redacting these documents failed to flatten the markups, or just used the black highlighter tool- which it seems that’s what happened, allowing anyone to just undo it in the PDF.
This is why I love sleuths
Perhaps that was the point?!
I seen it also referred as hacking. It’s just copy and pasting to a new word doc
Do you really think this was a mistake?Â
That’s what happens when you use ChatGPT to edit millions of documents. It’s gonna find the easiest and simplest way to get it done.
Has anyone uploaded the unredacted files or shared anything interesting found in the redactions yet? I want to look myself but don’t have access to a laptop currently and it’s a pain in the butt trying to do that on a mobile phone.
Also, good work sleuths!!
CtrlC/CtrlV hackers in 2025
I mean the first thing they teach you in a law firm is when you react documents you print them out and then scan them to ever prevent this from ever happening. First year associates learn this almost instantly
This exact thing happened 10-20 years ago with some other pdf redactions, no way it was NOT intentional this time.
I’m laughing so hard I’m wheezing.
Me personally I’d have kept quiet about it, don’t interrupt your enemy while they’re making a mistake and all that, announcing this will likely make someone sit up and take notice and correct their error or root out those engaging in malicious compliance
Why is the focus on the method? What’s important is what these “sleuths” learned. Failing to see any new revelations, this feels like a nothingburger.
The tragedy here will be the admin properly redacting future releases because they found out.
What else can we expect from unctuous oafs?