disturbing lack of awareness
The garbage just keeps getting worse, and something I’m struggling with now is that, increasingly, people are fooled by it! I stumble upon what was clearly one or two sentences fed into Claude and people are in the comments calling it the Best Article They’ve Ever Read On The Subject; worse, the comments are often by very (extremely) technically capable people, often those very disposed against LLMs! I don’t get it. They just managed to read several thousand words of nothing and, presumably(?) due to a lack of engagement with LLMs, they have no immune system for it. God help them if they actually try one once; perhaps these are the same people who get “one-shotted”.
A few months ago the reaction to these pieces was almost completely negative and the posts were buried quickly, but since the same updates landing that made these models quite reliable for coding tasks — which the anti- crowd by and large still do not think possible — the bullshit has really started to drown out the human-written stuff, with plenty of the perpetrators even full-on using them in the comments section of places known to be hostile to LLMs, and yet people’s bullshit detectors have fallen silent. It’s all a big yikes.
