Post B2M13QAMmPgm48Loiu by cstross@wandering.shop
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 (DIR) Post #B2M13QAMmPgm48Loiu by cstross@wandering.shop
       2026-01-16T19:17:08Z
       
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       LLMs are spam generators. That is all.They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".But really, all they are is spam generators.We have hit the spamularity.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2MSD9xkZnUrTBJmIi by talin@mastodon.social
       2026-01-16T20:17:49Z
       
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       @cstross LLMs are replacing every aspect of civilization - institutions, process knowledge, organizational competence - with civilization fan-fiction.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2MSDBU2vCvOBdR5HM by talin@mastodon.social
       2026-01-16T20:22:19Z
       
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       @cstross Put another way: LLMs have revealed a zero-day exploit in human consciousness and culture: if you can manufacture plausibility at scale, you can bypass all of the accumulated wisdom of centuries of skepticism and critical thinking. Any fact-using profession is potentially vulnerable to this attack.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2MUgjVdh4og1POmTA by ploum@mamot.fr
       2026-01-16T22:16:15Z
       
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       @cstross : Sentence also work by replacing LLMs by "marketers" or "people holding a MBA"
       
 (DIR) Post #B2jheerrBehO8jJ39E by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2026-01-28T07:08:19.605796Z
       
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       @mirabilos @cstross Probably related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Sky