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Oh btw the "David Lebryk" is not even mentioned in the article, CoPilot added that as context.

So the articles quite literally has 0 first party witnesses. Yet they are super-duper-certain that this person has 'read-write' and is rewriting COBOL on the fly. Give me a break, this is worst than "Weekly World News" -- it may as well say:

"BatBoy Terrorizing Treasury Database! Picture on Page 5!"

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> Oh btw the "David Lebryk" is not even mentioned in the article, CoPilot added that as context.

Normally that would make you question the validity of everything Copilot told you about the article.

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Well in this case CoPilot confirmed my own inferences, it wasn't just working on my behalf and 'doing a thing for me'.

I was asking it to check the sources because I found every article was doing exactly what was described, and was starting to doubt my own ability to trace the story because it was just going in circles.

So it acknowledging exactly what I observed, and adding additional context (which it was clear about) is not exactly a mark against it.

If I simply asked it to do a thing and it hallucinated something, sure. If I hadn't already done the work manually, sure.

That isn't close to what is happening here though. It correctly identified the issues in the reporting, and attempted to add additional context and still found there was no first party source. Which is all true.

David Lebryk and/or Scott Bessent could confirm this story right now and put everything to bed. Neither has anything else to lose. They haven't.

I'm sure someone will say "but what if Trump has them KILLED" or some nonsense like that -- they already came out and spoke against him, and if you have to resort to that kind of imaginary threat and use nothing but 2nd and 3rd party anonymous sources to make the claim.... you are floating a 'conspiracy theory'.