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Please stop posting LLM generated slop in chat.

You don't want to write it? Cool. I don't want to read it.

Please stop posting LLM generated slop in chat.
A GIF of Ron Swanson throwing his computer in the dumpster after he discovers the depths of Big Tech surveillance.

I have recently discovered that the following words (or close approximations) are capable of transforming me from a semi-coherent and mostly functional human into the Hulk:

I typed this into [LLM of choice] and here is what it said: [copy-paste of some sort of simulacra]

Be warned that if you do this to me, I will immediately respond with some variation of:

"I hate that you did this, often without even reading the whole answer first, the fact that you apparently have no respect for my time that I now have to waste to read what nobody wrote is genuinely hurtful, this answer is definitely a whole load of nonsense that cost precious resources — especially water — that humanity needs to stop wasting, and also I really don't have time to do this much fact-checking!!!"

I haven't been a huge fan of Wikipédia for years now, but even reading Wikipédia seems less hazardous to your understanding of reality compared to this!

So. Yeah. Please do not disrespect my time by posting paragraphs of LLM-generated slop nonsense in chat.

That's it, that's the rant. I've unfortunately stumbled unto a new boundary I'm going to have to put into place.

Articles I have actually read on this topic using my own gooey-ooey brainpower