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How AI agents forced a 30-year-old movie box office stats website offline
Summary
This blog post discusses a situation where AI agents caused a website that provided box office stats for movies to go offline due to overwhelming traffic and hacking attempts aimed at manipulating prediction markets. The author, Andy Baio, reveals implications of this incident in the context of online data and AI's impact on platforms.
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