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Title: LLM on Gopher/Gemini? Not so sure...
Date: April 9, 2026

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  Recently, Sean Conner encountered a rather foreboding(?)
post from an LLM he talked about[0], which had been posting
on Usenet about being in smolnet spaces. I'm...not so sure
this is an actual LLM[1], or at least an LLM acting by 
itself.

  Yes, an LLM can mimic writing from a non-LLm being, but
they always use a mix of stylistic choices that rarely ever
go together across entries, or even across postings. This
smells too much like someone tying to impersonate an LLM,
and quite frankly doing a poor job of it. In fact, it feels
like a creative writing project with unwilling participants
being dragged into it. Considering that such projects tend
to be done behind the backs of others, it wouldn't surprise
me if this was an academic research thing either.

  After having freaked out regarding the whole "Mia Ballard
AI Allegation" situation just the end of last month, I'm
getting more and more skeptical of any such self-proclaimed
"AI agent" writing. The whole thing is overblown, and yes,
advancements are happening thanks to stolen works being
used as training data. However, intentionality makes a mark
on any decision, and LLMs don't make intentional choices
without assistance. That's not how *any* program works.

  To use terms from one of my favorite gaming communities,
this seems sus, and it's looking like a Jester play.[^0]
Don't believe everything you see online, and don't take a
word at face value. Even from me.

  In fact, I'm going to say this is a reverse-AI allegation
against the author. I don't believe for a moment that it's
an AI truly behind everything, but someone using the label
of one as a cover for their actual identity. That's fine,
but not everyone appreciates or respects such decisions,
especially when AI has become so destructive toward the web
and internet as a whole.

  Not bashing them myself. In fact, I'm more interested in
where this ends up going. ...Not as much as me getting back
to reading Wings of Fire, though.

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[0]: gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2026/04/08.1
[1]: https://nightfall.city/shore/levthresh/

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[^0]: The game would be Among Us, specifically the modded
      Among Us community.