<![CDATA[What happens when you must wonder if everything you read is synthetic, meaningless, intentionless wordloaf?]]>What happens when you must wonder if everything you read is synthetic, meaningless, intentionless wordloaf? What happens when most of the text around you actually is?

This is not about economics. It's not even about climate. It's about the damage to the metaphysical fabric of human existence.

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-we-unknowingly-published-an-ai-column-by-a-fake-author-heres-what-happened/

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In academia, it's academics using LLMs to summarize papers or reports produced with LLMs ... which makes me wonder if it wouldn't be more efficient to just publish the prompts instead because they contain all the novel information.

Otherwise it's just machines keeping humans occupied.... we don't need superhuman artificial intelligence to enslave humankind. Just LLMs, engagement metrics and optimisation.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.edu.nl/users/Alex_H/statuses/116441370585627489https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.edu.nl/users/Alex_H/statuses/116441370585627489Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:51:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happens when you must wonder if everything you read is synthetic, meaningless, intentionless wordloaf? on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:34:50 GMT]]>@mttaggart I love how you put it - the metaphysical fabric of human existence. People are selling their soul when they use AI - it's a soul snatcher.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://union.place/users/lisagetspolitik/statuses/116440595860938702https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://union.place/users/lisagetspolitik/statuses/116440595860938702Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:34:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happens when you must wonder if everything you read is synthetic, meaningless, intentionless wordloaf? on Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:57:47 GMT]]>@mttaggart Well, since this is objective reality at the moment I think the answer is “we deal with it.” For me personally, it means I’ve basically stopped reading anything on the internet. Fedi still seems mostly real so that’s nice. And I still read blogs from before the dark times by people I know actually write. It’s going to get harder to tell signal from noise, but I think we will develop techniques to identify real voices. Hopefully this doesn’t last forever.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/pier/statuses/116440214226837392https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/pier/statuses/116440214226837392Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:57:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happens when you must wonder if everything you read is synthetic, meaningless, intentionless wordloaf? on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:37:25 GMT]]>@mttaggart

The wealthiest free-est people will be those with least advanced technology.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/rzeta0/statuses/116438954526563514https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mathstodon.xyz/users/rzeta0/statuses/116438954526563514Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:37:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to What happens when you must wonder if everything you read is synthetic, meaningless, intentionless wordloaf? on Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:05:12 GMT]]>@mttaggart I really hate the feeling of wondering. It feels almost paranoid; I don't think it's positive to be constantly suspicious of every piece of writing I read, but I keep reading these little quirks that make me wonder.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/benjamineskola/statuses/116438120054072263https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/benjamineskola/statuses/116438120054072263Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:05:12 GMT