The internet's noise floor rising was always going to be a given with generative AI, but man to see how low effort, lazy, and haphazard it has been... disappointing.
Everyone's been so scared of intentionally malicious groups, we all forgot about the average lazy fraud who wanted to boost his github commit graph, make his subreddit seem alive, or whatever the dumb case may be.
That's been at the top of my list of concerns for quite a while. In Frankfurt's definition, bullshit is "speech intended to persuade without regard for truth". That's exactly what LLMs are good at. With no concept of truth or ability to verify anything, they're just good at plausible words. Which means they're ideal tools for bullshitters of all sorts.
The malicious groups benefit from all of the added noise acting as a smokescreen (in fact, the smart ones probably have a part of their fleet intentionally contributing to it in their victim communities)
Everyone's been so scared of intentionally malicious groups, we all forgot about the average lazy fraud who wanted to boost his github commit graph, make his subreddit seem alive, or whatever the dumb case may be.