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Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website

nytimes.com

24 pointsby reaperducer7 comments

solenoid0937[4 comments hidden]
Not gonna lie, this is hilarious. Imagine if Claude managed to successfully get a visa!
orionblastar[3 comments hidden]
Imagine if people use AI to get VISAs. My wife and I filled out Visa forms for her two sisters in Thailand in 2007, and we are still waiting for approval.
crooked-v[2 comments hidden]
My personal recommendation (disclaimer, used to work for them): https://www.atlys.com A ton of work behind the scenes to find the the weird foibles and gotchas of every visa type on offer and automate all the ridiculous stuff (all the way down to needing to physically courier a passport around for some applications), to get extremely high acceptance rates.
sparqlittlestar[hidden]
All testimonials from the Netherlands on that website are from people with no distinctly Dutch names. Sure, a majority could be non-Dutch heritage as it's all very much passport related, but still, none?

And once I tried to click through on a Trustpilot review, there was a 404.

helsinkiandrew[2 comments hidden]
> The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip.

Surely that’s the lead?

classified[hidden]
Here you are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50027118
orionblastar[hidden]
Mirror without a paywall: https://archive.is/M0W0d