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Well yes, they are. It's just that a lot of legacy media is also bad. They can both be correct.

how many wars did LLMs and the social media instigate? the shitrag here did at least one.

LLMs are quite new, so you might honestly want to save your comment and return to it in a few years. For social media, I think you can point to directly social media with regard to the Arab Spring as well as the Rohingya genocide, and many, many mass shooting events. I'm sure there's more, that's just off the top of my head.

Much like legacy media, social media is certainly not _wholly_ or necessarily even _primarily_ responsible, but I think there's little doubt it played a role.

>LLMs are quite new, so you might honestly want to save your comment and return to it in a few years.

okay, call me when an LLM begins to append "furthermore, I think that X must be destroyed" to its outputs.

>call me when an LLM begins to append "furthermore, I think that X must be destroyed" to its outputs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45845709

Well in this case, this definitely happened to this one kid.

> how many wars did LLMs and the social media instigate?

At least one already. I suspect your comment won't age well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-facebook...

> Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, told reporters that social media had played a "determining role" in Myanmar.

You could probably count the war in Gaza to some extent.

>Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, told reporters that social media had played a "determining role" in Myanmar.

"played a role" != "instigated". everything "played a role" there.

their fucking government did it.

>You could probably count the war in Gaza to some extent.

are you for real?

> "played a role" != "instigated"

You took out a pretty important word.

> are you for real?

Yes? Both sides of the conflict used social media heavily to justify their actions and generate support for continuing the conflict.

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