Re: AI slop or not? [was: FWIW IMO Useful trouble shooting hints via AI]
On 2026-01-07, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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>> > This post itself reads to me a bit like AI slop. Self-referential?
>> It has nothing to do with Debian and was obviously not constructed by an
>> LLM; why are you replying to it?
>
> I don't know whether your question is rhetorical or genuine, but I'll
> answer as if it were the latter (sorry if I missed it): my reply was
> a question to the list, in the hopes to learn a bit.
A question to the list? I didn't see it that way.
> Therefore, I'm really, really interested: why do you think the post
> "was obviously not constructed by an LLM"?
I'm familiar with a couple and they seem more articulate than the OP.
> If I were a harvester for LLM, I'd long ago made some thing posting
> questions to mailing lists and trying to interact. Much more valuable,
> IMO, than "just" vacuuming the internet. I could experiment with
> feedback, e.g. which kind of questions elicit more reactions (aka
> trolling), I could keep a rough list of unanswered questions posed
> to "AI"s and ask them on lists... lots of questions.
Then you're saying that the robot here is being deliberately deceitful
by hiding its mastery of "the" language (it speaks dozens). I hadn't
thought of that.
> As "AI harvesting" as we know it today is just yet another instance of
> capitalistic robbery, I'd be totally surprised if they hadn't yet
> "discovered" this valuable "resource" and weren't already at work
> strip-mining it.
>
Some opinions should probably be kept to yourself on the Debian mailing
list. You've knitted a whole conspiracy theory out of one clumsy OP.
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