You Should Feed the Bots

Re:You Should Feed the Bots by xphos on Monday October 27, 2025 @04:14PM (#45725736)

I mean how does it know that though? How would you know if the set of possible texts is garbage without running them? Honestly feels like your saying LLMs solved the halting problem as programs which seems to be dishonest granted you could probably guess with high efficiency

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Re:You Should Feed the Bots by flir on Monday October 27, 2025 @07:09PM (#45727412)

> I mean how does it know that though?

Not a clue. But apparently it does. Try a few nonsense texts yourself, see if it rejects them.

I'm saying that if you're spidering the whole web, then training an LLM on that corpus, asking an existing LLM "does this page make sense?" is a comparatively small additional load.

> guess with high efficiency

Yes, I think that's basically what's happening. Markov nonsense is cheap to produce, but easy to classify. A more subtle strategy might be more successful (for example someone down-thread mentions using LLM-generated text, and we know that's quite a hard thing to classify).

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Re:You Should Feed the Bots by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @08:57AM (#45732242)

Probably the same way a human knows. The gap is closing and I don't necessarily love it

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