2026-09-27 09:28 UTC
@alice@lgbtqia.space I've got a much smaller online presence, but I did a deep dive into myself after seeing that post.
I didn't really get anything juicy, but the way that these things will just aggregate information from across a number of very different online locations into one spot can be kinda scary.
Like, that a person can look up my name and find all these things about me without ever actually reading those pages for themselves is just -- idk.
Like, part of what makes me feel safe having *any* presence online (especially as a queer person and a leftist in this political environment) is that there's so much *friction* involved in finding particular things. Sure, anyone could come and find information about me that I publicly post, but the idea normally would be that you have to trudge through a lot of reading in order to find all of that information.
Now, the LLM will automate a lot of this, and topping it off by fully divorcing everything from the original context¹ that it came from.
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¹ This is all assuming that the information is true to begin with -- which in my case it was, but in many other cases it is not.
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@riverpunk@defcon.social 2026-09-27 09:41
@alice@lgbtqia.space I'd also like to say that some of these models -- many problems though they might have -- are a lot better at not spewing un-cited bullshit when doing web search and summary. Google seems to not really care about accuracy at all, which is why they don't mind using these shitty models that are much more error prone than (at least in my experience) other options like, say, GPT 5.6. Not an endorsement of AI systems, and even the best ones will still spew utterly false bullshit, but the least that a search company could do is at least use something that returns these kinds of dangerous mistakes *less often*, no?