Using the web to create virtual personnel, the chessboard project was automatically removed from Kickstarter with the suspected fraud
Recently, a project on the Kickstarter community fundraising site was removed, after the project was accused of using ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com to create "ghost personnel" on the project team information. judgment.
Specifically, the removed project was an automatic chess board product called REGIUM, with the ability to connect with a series of chess applications on the phone and automatically move the chess pieces according to the moves on it. As a result, users can "play chess" with the players who are thousands of kilometers away. REGIUM also confidently asserts on the project's Kickstarter page that "This is the BEST PEOPLE chess board ever."
However, shortly after that, many unusual points of this project were discovered by the community, most notably that many members of the project development team did not even exist.

Except Delgado and Balcells, the other four people of this project do not exist
Specifically, 4/6 members in the list above are not real people, but created by the website ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com . According to Phil Wang, the creator of the website, four of the six members of the REGIUM project are products of algorithms that create human images using Machine Learning. Quote of the Chess.com community:
Phil Wang, from ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com, said that, in his experience, the portrait images of four Regium project members are likely the product of machine learning algorithms, with a lot of distortion around the location. glasses, as well as artifact plaques in the image background.
After this information was published, two famous online chess players, Chess.com and Chess24.com, both ended their cooperation with REGIUM.

In response to the allegations above, the other two members of this project, Delgado and Barcells, said:
"Our team is made up of unimportant people. The Internet is now too fond of conspiracy theories, and keyboard typists on the Internet are ready to do anything to attack and accuse us. remove the image of the other 4 members because they have families and other important projects at many big companies, and your actions can harm them. "
However, there are other things that signal that REGIUM is a very problematic project. For example, the product introduction video on Kickstarter (back to the scene of the chess pieces automatically moving on the chessboard) is not real, instead created by stop-motion technology. As for REGIUM, they said that there was actually an error during the introductory video recording, so they had to revise the video to make it as "delicious" as possible.
Trailer introduces automatic chessboard Regium
The project team even stated that "they filmed a video by phone to prove their chessboard was real, not CGI or stopmotion, and they sent this video to a number of people still have doubts, but when asked if they could publish this video publicly, the project team did not respond.
But anyway, the Kickstarter team felt that this project had a lot of non-transparent issues, and decided to remove this project from its site.
According to Vice
You should read it
- [Infographic] 4 types of Phishing are easy to trap users
- Guide to playing Chinese chess for beginners
- Some Auto Chess Mobile strategies and tactics
- The list of champions is in the Union Flag
- Dota Auto Chess: Synthesize assassins to be strengthened in this update
- Chess in technology era will be like this
- What is Spear Phishing?
- Top 5 apps to teach chess on mobile
May be interested
- How to Create a Successful Project (for School)school projects can come in a variety of forms, and the exact process you'll need to create a successful one will vary from project to project, subject to subject, and class to class. however, some general steps and best practices can help...
- How to Create a Project in iMovieimovie is an application for macs that is used to create videos. an imovie project can be as simple or as complex as the amount of time and effort you wish to put into making it. this article walks you through the basics for creating a...
- The Linux Foundation announced the release of ACRN - an open source virtual machine project for IoT devicesthe linux foundation has just announced a new project called acrn, which provides generic code to create hypervisors for iot devices.
- How to create a virtual phone number to receive messagesyou have tried many ways to create virtual phone number to set up multiple gmail accounts but it is effective. click here to get a simple and detailed way to create a virtual phone number!
- Xiaomi continues to 'gobble' Googlewithout hiding its ambition to reach the international market, xiaomi (china) recently continued to successfully solicit another senior google employee to help the company realize its ambition.
- Create virtual machines with Hyper-V on Windows 8 and Windows 10if you're using windows 8 or windows 10, you've probably heard of hyper-v, a virtual machine software built into the windows operating system. at first hyper-v was part of windows server 2008, but microsoft later integrated on windows 8 and windows 10, and this feature is only available on pro and enterprise versions.
- In order for the manufacturer to sell counterfeit products on its platform, Kickstarter was suedipad keyboard maker brydge was forced to sue kickstarter when it failed to find a way to contact the seller of its counterfeit product, possibly an anonymous company in china.
- How to create virtual email on IdBlocidbloc will create virtual email to help users avoid spam to their main email.
- Oppo Find X is removed from the ranking list because of performance score fraudaccording to the verge, oppo find x and oppo f7 of oppo were removed from the ranking list of the 3dmark performance scoring page.
- This is the perfect glass for office workers who plugged in their computers all dayas well as blocking 100% of blue light and turning it into fashionable sunglasses, barner 2.0 is currently causing a fever in the kickstarter community.