According to Google, the Polish zloty started the new year with a huge crash. On Monday evening, the euro was worth 5.40 PLN, the dollar 4.83 PLN and the Swiss franc 5.80 PLN. The Polish currency was not so weak even after the start of the war in Ukraine. No wonder it went viral on social media.
Domansky: The zloty exchange rate causing panic is fake
Minister of Finance Andrzej Domanski commented on this issue. “Relax. This zloty rate causing panic is 'fake' (data source error). Markets in Asia will open soon and things will return to normal,” he wrote on X's website (formerly Twitter).
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According to Rzeczpospolita, the sudden currency turmoil was caused by a Google error, which was allegedly caused by the fact that the National Bank of Poland did not provide the search engine with current exchange rate data on January 1.
Analysts of the Cinkciarz.pl website note that hypothetically, using fake data, someone could, for example, create fake traffic on websites using artificial intelligence.
This is not the first time that Google's services fail, but such a serious error with exchange rates does not happen often – emphasizes “Rz”.
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