lest we feel superior in *our* ability to clock LLM garbage, this disaster among elites is a microcosm of something even worse that LLMs and their sister technologies of shitcoins and spambots are harbingers of: we *all* have heuristics that we need to use to make sense of the world, and heuristics work because of an implicit presumption of good faith in many interactions. most presumptions can be hacked if some significant plurality of actors in a system are always seeking maximum advantage
like, consider open source projects. casual code review works because you assume the code is written by a human and you presume that person is taking pride in their work. if you prompt a spambot to emit maximum PRs under your name so you can pad out your resume and land one of the 7 remaining jobs at FAANG, to stand out among the 5,000 applicants for every opening, the reviewer has no chance. they can't possibly contend with that volume of junk. projects will shut down, eventually.
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