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Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by tolerance on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:06AM (#47395380)
What percentage of this is lawslop?

https://github.com/righttoprivacyact/bill/tree/main/tests

There’s clearly a non-trivial level of LLM involvement.

I want to say 100% lawslop. I can’t figure out who’s behind this to ascertain their qualifications and acumen in the space.

100% seems like a safe place to start speculating from but I can be talked down.

Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by lich_king on Monday March 16, 2026 @02:04AM (#47395619)
Yeah, most charitably, it seems to be some sort of an LLM art project. And it's another day when we engage with slop because it happens to say something we like.
Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by garyfirestorm on Monday March 16, 2026 @01:19AM (#47395427)
As opposed to bills sponsored by real people that completely decimated privacy? Patriot Act? I’ll take slop that has some semblance of reasonable privacy protection any day.
Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by ramon156 on Monday March 16, 2026 @03:11AM (#47395934)
There's some obvious issues that come with LLM generated bills. LLMs tend to stay very generic, to have a lower chance of being "wrong".

I could also ask my 5 year old to draw a bill for me, that's as successful as giving a generic bill.

Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by int_19h on Monday March 16, 2026 @05:41AM (#47396906)
> LLMs tend to stay very generic, to have a lower chance of being "wrong".

It depends entirely on how you prompt them.

Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by duskdozer on Monday March 16, 2026 @06:27AM (#47397214)
Who has ever written like this:

    (a) In general.—There are authorized
Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by ddtaylor on Monday March 16, 2026 @06:28AM (#47397220)
I think this kind of argument is a modified version of an ad-hominem attack.

When you disagree with an argument, you are supposed to address the argument itself, not the thing making the argument.

Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by hananova on Monday March 16, 2026 @06:31AM (#47397236)
Ad-hominem (literally: "to the person") requires a person on the other side of the argument. This wasn't made or written by a person, thus ad-hominem does not apply.
Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by grumpymuppet on Monday March 16, 2026 @07:21AM (#47397562)
Presumably why the person you are responding to called it a modified ad hominem.
Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by samrus on Monday March 16, 2026 @09:08AM (#47398507)
Thats a bit pedantic. Youre still arguing against an entity rather than addressing the argument.

If you prompted an LLM to make a PSA that people should brush their teeth, is it a fair to argue that brushing your teeth is bad because an LLM made the argument?

Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by egberts1 on Monday March 16, 2026 @10:18AM (#47399399)
Let's call it "Ad machinam".

A literal form of "to the machine”: none of the rights that a person has.

Example usage:

“That’s not a rebuttal; it’s an argumentum ad machinam -- you’re rejecting it just because AI wrote it.”

Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by normalaccess on Monday March 16, 2026 @11:48AM (#47400590)
And really when you think about it, all AI is is just the a statical recombination of (almost) everything that (almost) everyone has written.

So it's a kind of mechanical recombination of ideas.

Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by egberts1 on Monday March 16, 2026 @03:51PM (#47403935)
Almost like reject the argument because the logical reasoning was supplied emotionally.
Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by tmaly on Monday March 16, 2026 @10:28AM (#47399522)
Maybe we need a phrase like ad-machinam to attack LLMs.
Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by watwut on Monday March 16, 2026 @06:32AM (#47397239)
That went out of window and provably failed even before LLM. The strategy of flooding everything with cheap false claims and arguments while demanding that the opponent spends increasing amount of effort and time was a success even before. It became worst with LLM.

So, no, you are making the claim, first prove it is worth any of that effort.

Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by ddtaylor on Monday March 16, 2026 @07:33AM (#47397656)
This seems like a chicken and egg problem.
Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by api on Monday March 16, 2026 @06:45AM (#47397318)
Made me coin a term.

Ad hominllm: the dismissal of a work or an argument because an LLM was, or may have been, used in its construction or editing.

Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by Ylpertnodi on Monday March 16, 2026 @11:38AM (#47400450)
Pronounced: ad homin-ellem?
Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by stackedinserter on Monday March 16, 2026 @10:18AM (#47399412)
It all makes sense, I don't care if it's LLM-generated or not. I'm fine with 100% LLM-written bill if it protects me from Flock et al.
Re:Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation by normalaccess on Monday March 16, 2026 @11:51AM (#47400629)
I agree, and it wont... We will all be tracked at all times as the new global economy is created.

Biblical times.