Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods

Re:Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods by andrepd on Saturday July 12, 2025 @10:23AM (#44542293)

As I pointed out in a different comment, the Internet at least was (and is) a promise of many wondrous things: video call your loved ones, talk in message boards, read an encyclopedia, download any book, watch any concert, find any scientific paper, etc etc; even though it has been for the last 15 years cannibalised by the cancerous mix of surveillance capitalism and algorithmic social media.

But LLMs are from the get-go a bad idea, a bullshit generating machine.

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Re:Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods by suspended_state on Saturday July 12, 2025 @01:25PM (#44543502)

> [...] LLMs are from the get-go a bad idea, a bullshit generating machine.

Is that a matter of opinion, or a fact (in which case you should be able to back it up)?

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Re:Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods by andrepd on Saturday July 12, 2025 @05:26PM (#44545321)

For real? x) Of course it's my opinion, what are your own comments about "silly gifs" and "useless early internet" if not an opinion?Seriously...

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Re:Bad Actors Are Grooming LLMs to Produce Falsehoods by suspended_state on Saturday July 12, 2025 @07:36PM (#44546163)

That might be a lack of understanding from my part. I had the impression from your comment that you were implying that there was (and is) hope in internet development (ie. many people hold a positive opinion about it), but there cannot be any hope in LLMs (ie. nobody can build a positive opinion about it, because presumably some hard fact prevents it).

As for what I said, I was just mimicking the comment of GP, which I'll quote here:

> The internet actually enabled us to do new things. AI is nothing of that sort. It just generates mediocre statistically-plausible text.

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