Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

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I love fake product reviews. You can see the marketing speak just dripping off of them. I swear people in marketing can’t control themselves when it comes to speaking like an ad.

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That is exactly the type of content LLMs were designed to excel at generating.

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That is exactly the type of content LLMs were designed to excel at generating.

Hm. It’s also exactly the kind of disingenuousness that that humans have spent a couple million years evolving to try to detect, though.

I wonder if the LLMs are going to win this. Maybe more likely: When everyone realizes that the entire Internet is being flooded with even more bullshit, we’ll just stop trusting it, and the LLMs will more or less have put themselves out of a job.

It would be funny if the propensity for humans to lie to each other meant that we were basically already inoculated from this terrifying new category of machines that we’ve designed to lie to us too.

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Hm. It’s also exactly the kind of disingenuousness that that humans have spent a couple million years evolving to try to detect, though.

I agree, but by now there’s probably no reason to make people write those kind of things. It’s likely that no human oversight is needed at all. Astroturfing can now be nearly completely automated.

I wonder if the LLMs are going to win this. Maybe more likely: When everyone realizes that the entire Internet is being flooded with even more bullshit, we’ll just stop trusting it, and the LLMs will more or less have put themselves out of a job.

One good thing about perfect bullshit generators is that they might help us abolish bullshit things like cover letters and marketing copy. But that’s a very small gain considering the massive loss of trust in the web and making it a glitchy, spammy, scammy experience.

It would be funny if the propensity for humans to lie to each other meant that we were basically already inoculated from this terrifying new category of machines that we’ve designed to lie to us too.

On the contrary, I believe our inherent ability to trust each other is one of the main pillars of civilization, and undisclosed use of LLMs heavily undermines it.

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