It could have been a technological breakthrough bordering on guesswork. In the end it was a scam. Since December 3, an artificial intelligence has perfectly predicted the results of the matches of the world Cup. the the WorldCupAI account posted the good scores on Twitter in advance.
Followed by more than 600 people, he came to boast of having predicted the results of the 63 matches of the competition without the slightest error. Tech expert Mathis Hammel revealed the day after the final that he was the creator of the WorldCupAI account and claimed it was a hoax.
“The predictions have been rigged,” admits Mathis Hammel. He explains that the account posted all possible scores for each match, then at the end of each match the account removes the fake results. The authors of the account generated and published multiple tweets with all the possible results. At the end of the game, they deleted all the tweets with incorrect scores. The account posed as a group of experts in artificial intelligenceaccording to the details of the biography.
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For yesterday’s final, for example, “there are 300 images like that on my hard drive,” Mathis Hamel enjoys revealing. Therefore, the creator reveals that this account was totally false and that its objective was “to publicize a new type of fraud”, in particular, used “to manipulate the price of a share or a cryptocurrency”.
Several clues made it possible to detect the hoax: the account was created in November 2022, few users follow it. Another clue detected by the defecater account, the tweets count only one or two retweets, with the exception of the result of the final on December 18. The account was deliberately low-key before bragging that it managed to find exactly all 63 scores.
The final score registered 500 retweets, “showing that there is still work to be done,” says Mathis Hammel.
Source: BFM TV
