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  • Darius Kazemidarius@friend.camp
    Oct 25, 2026, 7:01 PM

    For example, "Content, Forever" generates shitty essays on a given topic prompt by following links on Wikipedia and pasting whole paragraphs from each article into the output.

    tinysubversions.com/contentFor

    I had so many inbound requests from high schoolers asking if I could make it do their homework. I would sometimes write back and explain, no, this isn't how this works, it's explained in the heading if you want to know more.

    Now they finally have the homework machine, I guess.

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  • Julien Deswaefjulien@xuv.be
    Oct 25, 2026, 11:13 PM

    @darius Totally. As Weizenbaum discovered himself: "I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."

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  • Julien Deswaefjulien@xuv.be
    Oct 25, 2026, 11:18 PM

    @darius It's actually the randomness that makes these LLM feel like magic, that "temperature" factor as they call it. Turn it to 1, remove randomness, and they appear pretty stupid. So I'm not surprised that random bots have totally felt "intelligent" to people. People back then also asked if Shiv Integer was AI.

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