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I was trying to find out about video stabilization options on Linux yesterday and stumbled over an article that extremely confidently was discussing a tool that’s maintained by the „authors of ffmpeg“ … which surprised me. So I googled it and couldn’t find it. Then I put the name into quotes and found three articles mentioning it, all by the same company.

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So it’s actually starting to happen. LLM generated content filled with hallucinations are flooding the web. The internet will soon become completely useless as the signal to noise ratio plummets until it’s practically impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff.

That AI transformer paper really is Pandora’s Box.

At this rate LLM is going to mean Lazy Layman’s Marketing.

Maybe I should ask ChatGPT to help me come up with more ideas…

And let’s not forget Google’s Snafu with Bard.

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