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The widespread publishing of AI slop (and relatedly, even predating LLMs, the enshittification of Google search results) is a much more interesting discussion than most of LLM Discourse.
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Tarnport (@Tarnport@mastodon.green)

All the shrieking "If you don't like AI, don't use it, but quit trying to control others who do," is actually an ancient debate. It goes back to Hammurabi's Code and the Commandments of Ma'at: DO NOT POLLUTE THE COMMON WELL.
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(It’s important to highlight the Google search results problem, and the related bots-on-Twitter and Fox News on TV problems. LLMs are just one more contributor to the slow but steady poisoning to what was briefly the high point of our civilization’s access to knowledge—so if you only stop LLMs, you have at best slightly slowed the knowledge commons problem.)
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And to be clear, this is a bubble. And there are scams. But there were scams and bubbles around railroads and the web too. This isn’t tulips, and if you insist on telling people it’s a tulip they’re going to tune you out.

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Luis Villa (@luis_in_brief@social.coop)

@peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv the externalities are real, the cons are real, and the bubble is real. But if your conversation starts from “welllll actualllly it isn’t useful” then people aren’t going to listen to you on any of the problems.
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Related: I don’t always agree with @pluralistic but this is leagues better than any other AI bubble criticism you’ll read today—long but absolutely worth a read and worth grappling with. His focus on labor power and industry intermediaries, rather than individual workers, is really important.
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2025-12-07 22:22:09

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I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop…

Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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