LLMs are spam generators. That is all.
They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent".
But really, all they are is spam generators.
We have hit the spamularity.
Charlie Stross
npub1ya…gla7e
2026-01-16 19:17:08 UTC
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2026-01-16 19:17:08 UTCEvent JSON
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