Maybe there was no big change: Believing that the dissolution of the soviet union in 1991 was a bad thing + believing that the way forward in 2026 is to align themselves with the eu, are not mutually exclusive beliefs. It’s like Moldova had a bad relation breakup, but after some time has passed, they accept that their old relation is done and never coming back, so it’s time to move on and start dating other people.

Reddit attempting to ban bots makes little difference. This is what I was referring to: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-approved-operation-disabled-russian-troll-farm-during-2018-midterms-n976381

I have the impression that there was some impact, but that it was less general and much shorter than when the Russian ira was temporarily shut down around the 2018 midterms. Maybe the effect was bigger + longer on sites with more account security like Facebook, but i don’t use any, so I wouldn’t know.

I’d love a systematic solution for 1l, O0 and also rarer traps like rnm. The time that gets wasted on errors caused by the first 2 is not negligible. There’s only 2x26 letters in the alphabet and 10 Arabic numerals, it shouldn’t be too hard to make them all distinctly unique.

The best succinct description of llm that I’ve read was “plagiarism machine”, because that’s basically what they are: automated plagiarism. At best they create a collage of other works, at worst they copy one work verbatim, but they never create something original because they can’t.

Copying something is a lot easier and thus cheaper than creating an original work from scratch, so genuine creators cannot hope to compete on cost. Which leads to less people being able to afford to earn a living from creating works, which leads to less original works being created.

Short term that’s great for the neoliberal company executives: fire the expensive artists, create cheap slop with the plagiarism machine, and thus maximize profits now. That the plagiarism machine becomes stagnant because not enough new original works are being created is a future problem, by which time the current executives will have already jumped ship.

But while it’s great for the neoliberal business model, for the rest of society it will suck. So now that we have confirmation that the AI executives know how bad their products are, and that they were just publicly lying about it in the style of tobacco executives, will anything be done about this “astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”? Personally I doubt it, there’s too much regulatory capture.