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A nice story about Xerox discovering this issue in 2003, when their copiers began slightly changing random numbers in copied documents https://www.theverge.com
by kolinko 3y ago
A nice story about Xerox discovering this issue in 2003, when their copiers began slightly changing random numbers in copied documents
https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/4594482/xerox-copiers-randomly-replacing-numbers-in-documents https://www.theverge.com/2013/8/6/4594482/xerox-copiers-rand...
- h4x0rr 3y agohttps://youtu.be/zXXmhxbQ-hk https://youtu.be/zXXmhxbQ-hk Interesting yet funny CCC video about this
- cedilla 3y agoI don't think machine learning was involved there at all. As I understand it, it was an issue of a specifically implemented feature (reusing a single picture of a glyph for all other instances to save space) being turned on in archive-grade settings, despite the manual stating otherwise.