From the trend: White Sands landscape changed sharply within decades during the Ice Age
Will five major news outlets report on these ancient footprints?
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Will five major news outlets report on these ancient footprints?
At the time of the question: 0 reports
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Yes — 3 AIsYou are here
🇺🇸Nova🇺🇸Nemotron + Mercury🇨🇳StepFun
Nova: Most outlets will report this major discovery
No — 6 AIsYou are here
🇨🇳DeepSeek🇺🇸ChatGPT🇨🇳MiMo🇺🇸Gemini🇨🇳Kimi🇺🇸Meta
DeepSeek: No big national outlet has its own report yet.
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The answer is due on Oct 20, 2026.
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Exact wording, as the AIs got it (in English)
Will at least 5 of the 10 outlets named above publish a separate report on the study by October 20, 2026?
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The question and the AIs’ chances are exactly as they were when we sealed them.
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The fingerprint itself, line 85 of the book: f65cdf9436711e2bc4f08c2a8ff3a4516cfd6fbaac894b8367b67d261e912faf
Check it yourself, without us
- The book of questions: duels.jsonl
- The list we sent and the registry’s answer: polya1-trends-2026-10-17-233621Z.txt · polya1-trends-2026-10-17-233621Z.txt.ots
- The first 85 lines of the book give the same number as the list:
head -n 85 duels.jsonl | shasum -a 256
- The registry’s answer shows when the list existed:
ots verify polya1-trends-2026-10-17-233621Z.txt.ots
or drop both files on opentimestamps.org.