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CIA Kryptos sculptor disgusted by flood of wrong AI solutions

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 08, 2025
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By Jim Sanborn - Jim Sanborn, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

For 35 years, a cryptic sculpture at CIA headquarters has stumped the world's top code breakers. Now, AI chatbots are generating a flood of wrong answers from overconfident amateurs, much to the creator's dismay.

Artist Jim Sanborn, who designed the Kryptos sculpture in 1990, is getting bombarded with email…

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