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  3. At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

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  • lcamtuf@infosec.exchangeL lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

    At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

    When I push back, I get two reactions. Authors say that it just helps them express themselves. AI promoters say "get used to it".

    I don't think we should: it boils down to asymmetry. Our time here is limited. Social interaction on the internet breaks down if it takes ~0 effort to publish, but readers are still expected to use their own eyeballs and brains to engage.

    So, I feel that we have three choices:

    1) Refuse to engage with LLM writing *no matter if the article makes a good point or not*.

    2) Embrace it and have my agent argue with your agent forever, for internet points.

    3) Call it quits and move to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods.

    astrid@tiny.tilde.websiteA This user is from outside of this forum
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    @lcamtuf when i notice something is untagged LLM output posing as human authorship, i back out and issue all the negative feedback signals i have access to

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    • lcamtuf@infosec.exchangeL lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

      At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

      When I push back, I get two reactions. Authors say that it just helps them express themselves. AI promoters say "get used to it".

      I don't think we should: it boils down to asymmetry. Our time here is limited. Social interaction on the internet breaks down if it takes ~0 effort to publish, but readers are still expected to use their own eyeballs and brains to engage.

      So, I feel that we have three choices:

      1) Refuse to engage with LLM writing *no matter if the article makes a good point or not*.

      2) Embrace it and have my agent argue with your agent forever, for internet points.

      3) Call it quits and move to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods.

      owoday@social.seattle.wa.usO This user is from outside of this forum
      owoday@social.seattle.wa.usO This user is from outside of this forum
      owoday@social.seattle.wa.us
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      @lcamtuf honestly it reminds me of this study https://people.psych.ucsb.edu/gazzaniga/PDF/Language%20after%20section%20of%20the%20cerebral%20commissueres%20(1967).pdf

      They seperate the sides of the brain and try to communicate with them individually.

      > when an object was placed in the left hand (right hemisphere sensing it), the speaking left hemisphere fabricated a verbal explanation for why the patient was holding it

      Later studies (60s so could be horseshit) worked with a theory of one side being more of an interpreter.

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      • owoday@social.seattle.wa.usO owoday@social.seattle.wa.us

        @lcamtuf honestly it reminds me of this study https://people.psych.ucsb.edu/gazzaniga/PDF/Language%20after%20section%20of%20the%20cerebral%20commissueres%20(1967).pdf

        They seperate the sides of the brain and try to communicate with them individually.

        > when an object was placed in the left hand (right hemisphere sensing it), the speaking left hemisphere fabricated a verbal explanation for why the patient was holding it

        Later studies (60s so could be horseshit) worked with a theory of one side being more of an interpreter.

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        @lcamtuf personally I think humans have a critical vulnerability in the interaction of being handed a completely plausible thought, whether encoded as speech/electrical signals/vision that once holding it will invent reasons why it is correct. That or we are just lazy haven't decided

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        • lcamtuf@infosec.exchangeL lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

          At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

          When I push back, I get two reactions. Authors say that it just helps them express themselves. AI promoters say "get used to it".

          I don't think we should: it boils down to asymmetry. Our time here is limited. Social interaction on the internet breaks down if it takes ~0 effort to publish, but readers are still expected to use their own eyeballs and brains to engage.

          So, I feel that we have three choices:

          1) Refuse to engage with LLM writing *no matter if the article makes a good point or not*.

          2) Embrace it and have my agent argue with your agent forever, for internet points.

          3) Call it quits and move to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods.

          mikesiegel@infosec.exchangeM This user is from outside of this forum
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          @lcamtuf 4) Reply "That's a good post, but I think a more valid point would be if you could go ahead and calculate this double SHA256 hash with a bunch of leading zeros" ?

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          • lcamtuf@infosec.exchangeL lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

            At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

            When I push back, I get two reactions. Authors say that it just helps them express themselves. AI promoters say "get used to it".

            I don't think we should: it boils down to asymmetry. Our time here is limited. Social interaction on the internet breaks down if it takes ~0 effort to publish, but readers are still expected to use their own eyeballs and brains to engage.

            So, I feel that we have three choices:

            1) Refuse to engage with LLM writing *no matter if the article makes a good point or not*.

            2) Embrace it and have my agent argue with your agent forever, for internet points.

            3) Call it quits and move to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods.

            sikorsky78@infosec.exchangeS This user is from outside of this forum
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            @lcamtuf 3

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            • lcamtuf@infosec.exchangeL lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

              At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

              When I push back, I get two reactions. Authors say that it just helps them express themselves. AI promoters say "get used to it".

              I don't think we should: it boils down to asymmetry. Our time here is limited. Social interaction on the internet breaks down if it takes ~0 effort to publish, but readers are still expected to use their own eyeballs and brains to engage.

              So, I feel that we have three choices:

              1) Refuse to engage with LLM writing *no matter if the article makes a good point or not*.

              2) Embrace it and have my agent argue with your agent forever, for internet points.

              3) Call it quits and move to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods.

              ruslan@infosec.exchangeR This user is from outside of this forum
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              @lcamtuf You chose the combination of 3) AND ... ??? 😁

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              • fritzadalis@infosec.exchangeF fritzadalis@infosec.exchange

                @lcamtuf
                You're probably a chainsaw vs. telephone pole away from #3.

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                @FritzAdalis I have Starlink on the roof, but I guess it wouldn't be hard to shoot it off...

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                • lcamtuf@infosec.exchangeL lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

                  At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

                  When I push back, I get two reactions. Authors say that it just helps them express themselves. AI promoters say "get used to it".

                  I don't think we should: it boils down to asymmetry. Our time here is limited. Social interaction on the internet breaks down if it takes ~0 effort to publish, but readers are still expected to use their own eyeballs and brains to engage.

                  So, I feel that we have three choices:

                  1) Refuse to engage with LLM writing *no matter if the article makes a good point or not*.

                  2) Embrace it and have my agent argue with your agent forever, for internet points.

                  3) Call it quits and move to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods.

                  dalias@hachyderm.ioD This user is from outside of this forum
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                  @lcamtuf I don't engage with that shit even when humans write it. I'm sure as hell not engaging when they didn't even bother.

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                  • jztusk@mastodon.socialJ jztusk@mastodon.social

                    @lcamtuf

                    I don't have to *prove* something is LLM-produced to conclude "this writer didn't bother to make sure that their writing clearly isn't LLM", and then yeet them permanently into the "don't bother" list.

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                    @jztusk @lcamtuf This. If they're not saying anything that *couldn't have been interpolated from existing Orange Site drivel*, I don't much care if a human spent time slopping it together manually or used an LLM for it. Either way it's not reflecting any genuine thought and not worth reading.

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                    • dalias@hachyderm.ioD dalias@hachyderm.io

                      @lcamtuf I don't engage with that shit even when humans write it. I'm sure as hell not engaging when they didn't even bother.

                      regehr@mastodon.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
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                      @dalias @lcamtuf it's making me read a lot fewer think pieces, that's for sure

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                      • lcamtuf@infosec.exchangeL lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

                        At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

                        When I push back, I get two reactions. Authors say that it just helps them express themselves. AI promoters say "get used to it".

                        I don't think we should: it boils down to asymmetry. Our time here is limited. Social interaction on the internet breaks down if it takes ~0 effort to publish, but readers are still expected to use their own eyeballs and brains to engage.

                        So, I feel that we have three choices:

                        1) Refuse to engage with LLM writing *no matter if the article makes a good point or not*.

                        2) Embrace it and have my agent argue with your agent forever, for internet points.

                        3) Call it quits and move to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods.

                        helge@mas.toH This user is from outside of this forum
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                        @lcamtuf When someone needs genAI to express themselves, they aren't. They do not - by their own unconscious admission - have anything to add. They do not have an original thought, nor created something beyond a vague concept. Their input is, in its current form, useless.

                        Until now, those people just wouldn't express themselves at length. We could smile, shrug, and remain friends. Pretend they have valuable thoughts.

                        We may have to just stop pretending. But it's rude. Now what?

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                        • lcamtuf@infosec.exchangeL lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

                          At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

                          When I push back, I get two reactions. Authors say that it just helps them express themselves. AI promoters say "get used to it".

                          I don't think we should: it boils down to asymmetry. Our time here is limited. Social interaction on the internet breaks down if it takes ~0 effort to publish, but readers are still expected to use their own eyeballs and brains to engage.

                          So, I feel that we have three choices:

                          1) Refuse to engage with LLM writing *no matter if the article makes a good point or not*.

                          2) Embrace it and have my agent argue with your agent forever, for internet points.

                          3) Call it quits and move to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods.

                          loathsome_dongeater@toots.matapacos.dogL This user is from outside of this forum
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                          @lcamtuf I don't understand the "LLM helped the poor sod whose first language is English express himself" point because every time I read an LLMism like "it is not x, its y" I feel like a part of my soul has been devoured. Bad human-written prose is better than copy-pasting LLM generated text. At that point, the friction of constructing prose which makes your thoughts coherent has been eliminated. No one should waste time reading it.

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                          • lcamtuf@infosec.exchangeL lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

                            At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

                            When I push back, I get two reactions. Authors say that it just helps them express themselves. AI promoters say "get used to it".

                            I don't think we should: it boils down to asymmetry. Our time here is limited. Social interaction on the internet breaks down if it takes ~0 effort to publish, but readers are still expected to use their own eyeballs and brains to engage.

                            So, I feel that we have three choices:

                            1) Refuse to engage with LLM writing *no matter if the article makes a good point or not*.

                            2) Embrace it and have my agent argue with your agent forever, for internet points.

                            3) Call it quits and move to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods.

                            kitkat_blue@mastodon.socialK This user is from outside of this forum
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                            #22

                            @lcamtuf

                            "LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed"

                            fourth choice-- get tf off whatever 💀 hellscape 💀 masquerading as "social" media you're seeing this on!

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                            • lcamtuf@infosec.exchangeL lcamtuf@infosec.exchange

                              At this point, LLM-written think pieces make up about half of all long-form writing in my social media feed.

                              When I push back, I get two reactions. Authors say that it just helps them express themselves. AI promoters say "get used to it".

                              I don't think we should: it boils down to asymmetry. Our time here is limited. Social interaction on the internet breaks down if it takes ~0 effort to publish, but readers are still expected to use their own eyeballs and brains to engage.

                              So, I feel that we have three choices:

                              1) Refuse to engage with LLM writing *no matter if the article makes a good point or not*.

                              2) Embrace it and have my agent argue with your agent forever, for internet points.

                              3) Call it quits and move to an off-the-grid cabin in the woods.

                              atlefren@snabelen.noA This user is from outside of this forum
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                              #23

                              @lcamtuf option 3 is much more rewarding at least

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