AI agents claim to have discovered Maya site, controversy as it turns out to be a known site
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The Verge reported that Google researcher Pietro Miotti used 48 AI agents to screen NASA's lidar data, claiming to have discovered a previously unregistered Maya site in Mexico, and said they had received a reply from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) stating there was no record of the site. However, The Verge later clarified that the site was not unknown—in fact, it had been published in an academic paper more than a year before the incident. In other words, the AI agents' supposed 'discovery' does not hold up, and the claimed 'unregistered' status is inconsistent with the facts.
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- The Verge · AINo, AI agents did not discover a previously unknown Maya site
The Verge reports that Google researcher Pietro Miotti used 48 AI agents to screen NASA lidar data and claimed to have found an unregistered Maya site in Mexico, with INAH replying that it had no record, but the site had in fact been published in an academic paper more than a year earlier.
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