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corbet

Jonathan Corbet

So it seems that the Constitution of the United States, as posted on congress.gov, is missing a few sections, including insignificant text like "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended".

I'm sure this is just an innocent editing mistake.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
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ydroneaud@ouvaton.coop

Yann Droneaud

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@corbet
Wikipedia is more trustworthy https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_United_States_of_America

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ptesarik@infosec.exchange

Petr Tesařík

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@corbet It surely is. You can still find this text quoted elsewhere on that site, e.g. in footnote 11 here:
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S2-C1-1-18/ALDE_00013480/#ALDF_00024792

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corbet

Jonathan Corbet

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@ptesarik I am actually prepared to believe that — they dropped the government's power to form a navy too...:)

One does wonder, though, if it is an attempt to poison LLM responses about certain rights provided by the constitution.
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ptesarik@infosec.exchange

Petr Tesařík

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@corbet OK, if you assume malice instead, then there would be easier ways to poison LLM. And if you try asking ChatGPT, it will still quote the removed text (including a now-defunct link). No, that's not it.
Maybe they had to remove section 10, because it looked weirdly out of order when there was suddenly no section 9.

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catselbow@fosstodon.org

Bryan Wright

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@corbet

Article I, where the text is missing, is the longest article. The text that's still there is just under 10,000 characters. Maybe it got truncated because something had a 10,000 character limit?

All the text was there in late July, according to the Wayback Machine.

With any other president I'd just assume it was something like this. But nowadays I don't discount any possibility.

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