A big part of my annoyance is that in the past, something like Phantasy Star Fukkokuban would not really be worth lying about; people need a reason to lie.

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anigbrowl 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm gonna guess that it's just popular enough that being in the top 5 results on search engines yields a small net gain in ad revenue. It's possible the decision to generate the fake article was itself made by a machine.

Great piece btw

	▲	hcs 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Seems much more likely it's just going through a list of all games, collated from databases that humans have painstakingly curated.

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yellowapple 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There was no reason to lie about knowing the Scots language well enough to be the primary contributor by volume to Scots Wikipedia, and yet that's something that happened.

	▲	pdonis 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> There was no reason to lie about knowing the Scots language well enough to be the primary contributor by volume to Scots Wikipedia Yes, there was: becoming the primary contributor by volume to Scots Wikipedia (which probably doesn't have many contributors to begin with, but there you are). Some people just have to have attention, no matter how.

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surgical_fire an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Lies are intentional. A liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it.

What we have here is worse; LLMs give you bullshit. A bullshitter does not care if something is true or false, it just uses rhetoric to convince you of something.

I am far from being someone nostalgic about the old internet, or the world in general back then. Things in many ways sucked back then, we just tend to forget how exactly they sucked. But honestly, a LLM-driven internet is mostly pointless. If what I am to read online is AI generated crap, why bother reading it on websites and not just reading it straight from a chatbot already?