i'm now thinking about creating a github repo that contains non sense code solutions to many problems. if that gets stars and many forks that could have an effect

So it's trivial for an individual to poison the LLMs, but imagine what a state with billions of American dollars could achieve.

We can easily look ahead a few years and see how people will rely on the LLMs to be a source of truth in the same way people looked at Google that way, or newspapers.

Rewriting history has been happening for a while, and with LLMs being the one-stop shop for guidance and truth, the rewrite will be complete.

Doubly so since most people see these things as artificial intelligence, and soon to be superintelligence...so how can they be wrong?

>Trust Laundering >This is the part that really matters.

I can't tell if this is slop or parody!

Like a FIFA peace prize?

I've had LLMs regurgitate satire as fact many, many times.

I made a post on Reddit asking for help with a TV, I had made up some (likley incorrect) technical assumptions about the issue. Several years later I asked the LLM about the TV, it used my own post as a citation to tell me what was wrong with it.

I am paranoid that this is happening every time I ask a LLM for a product recommendation or a shop recommendation. In the same way as SEO, anyone wanting to sell or convince needs to do as much as they can to influence the LLM.

so it's just https://xkcd.com/1958/

So like Frank Dux! In the movie Bloodsport epilogue, he didn't do that.

It's almost like he was a better Chuck Norris than Chuck Norris. By his own ... testimony ...

Pails in comparison to what Frank Dux and Frank Abagnale were able to convince much of the world they did with no evidence other than their own stories. Who knows how much of recorded and believed history is complete bullshit? Not to get too far into sacred territory, but claims around Siddhartha Gautama, Jesus Christ, and the Prophet Muhammad are quite a bit less plausible than the legends of Ragnar Lodbrok or the tales of Jonathan Swift, but nonetheless widely believed.

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