There’s an irony where tech folks use a forum to discuss ideas, amongst which involve Generative Language Models which aid and abet political astroturf campaigns that make ridiculous arguments to waste people’s energy when they use tech forums…

It’s like a drain and the usefulness of the forum is swirling around and largely depleted

The interesting problem for tomorrow’s internet is how to automatically root out this nonsense. That’s a browser addin / AI tool that would be useful. Take the comments and probabilistically score the nonsense factor. A new PageRank if you will.

The value is in the well trained bullshit detector. One that could have read the parent comment on everyone’s behalf and saved us all the bother.

Let the corporate/pr/oil industry shills exist in their own space, and enable legitimate discussion to continue