Billionaire toy maker wrongly identified as that guy convicted of possessing child sex material

If you’re a billionaire making children’s toys, the last thing you want is to be wrongly identified as a convicted wealthy person who secured a reduced sentence and permanent name suppression by donating $50,400 to a charity.

I can only imagine the face pulled by ZURU’s PR lady, after hearing the rumours on Tiktok;

Smart move for the Family to respond, not ZURU

“The convicted person is a 46-year-old New Zealand resident and is in custody; Mr Mowbray is none of these, he lives in Hong Kong with his family, is not in custody and has no involvement with that case whatsoever,” the family spokesperson said.

Reported on NZ Herald

Amplification of rumours on social media and A.I.

Social media is a beast that simply can’t be contained, no matter what we do. The algorithm, amount of users, and the incentives for amplification — makes it impossible to govern with laws.

If social media is bad, we now have A.I. providing false information. Tools that people rely on everyday for information. LLMs are also having a hard time with retraining.

Media makes it worse by reporting on it, amplifying Google search

The Mowbray family members after opening Google this morning;