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Comment by TZubiri | Hacker News Reader

don’t

if you just lie and an llm or a newspaper or a kid believe you, at that point it isn’t a criticism of their naivete, you are just lying

similarly hacking through systems or picking locks isn’t a showcase of weakness if systems, it’s just being a hacker

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Good job that only honest people post things on the internet otherwise we’d have a problem

falsifying statistics alone without the added stealing on top, was 3 years of labor camp in places. that was after they course corrected and stopped giving capital punishment for it.

good thing nobody falsified statistic just for the sake of it -- so being a sabotager and a foreign spy was always part of it too.

People have been astroturfing sites like Wikipedia, Reddit etc, well before LLMs were a thing.

Still it needs to be done once publicly to prove and document this is possible. The experiment was not intended to spread this far.

Prove what? That it's possible to lie on the internet and then SEO these lies to the top of a search ranking? We kind of already knew that.

Yes “kind of, that’s the issue though. Clearly the extent of the problem isn’t being acknowledged.

"your honor, I only commited the crime to prove that society is vulnerable to these kinds of attacks! I'm actually a hero"

Is this categorization actionable or meaningful in any way? If a system or process relies on no one on the internet being a liar, it's broken. There are liars. There will be more liars. As is made evident, people (and machines) will unwittingly reproduce lies out of sheer incompetence. That reflects poorly on them as reliable sources of information.

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