370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her use of AI

Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by za_creature on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:56AM (#50424377)

This is the true killer app for LLMs. A lot of important people didn't like a media channel they couldn't control and many businesses did not like having fair reviews of their products and services.

First it was "bot" accounts from low income countries posting and rating to skew the numbers, now you can do the same with actual bots. Drown the signal in a pool of noise until nobody believes anything any more and we return to the status quo from before personal computers.

Except with a surveillance apparatus that would've made the soviets jealous.

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by brador on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:59AM (#50424405)

Trustable curation is the answer.

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by za_creature on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:03AM (#50424450)

Don't worry, they'll slopify that too. TikTok is great at this.

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by soon_to_be_sb on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:06AM (#50424475)

Goodhart would beg to differ...

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by brendoelfrendo on Monday November 09, 2026 @07:31AM (#50424715)

I've already seen it impacting community curators on Steam; their inboxes are overflowing with vibe-coded slop. Curation is important, but it doesn't really scale; it just shifts the need to be a "human slop filter" from you to someone else.

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Re:370 Books in 20 months: South African author defends her ... by za_creature on Monday November 09, 2026 @09:37AM (#50426246)

It also creates excellent incentives for corruption.

TV is a perfect example of this: you only have so much screen time to allocate to the news, so which subjects do you "curate"?

I bet LLMs would love to curate the internet for us from all of that slop.

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