> If I was a more cynical person I'd be thinking that this entire scenario was totally contrived to produce this outcome so that the author could generate buzz for the article.
replyeven that's being charitable, to me it's more like modern trolling. I wonder what the server load on 4chan (the internet hate machine) is these days?
You misspelled "almost endearing".
replyIt's a narrative conceit. The message is in the use of the word "terror".
You have to get to the end of the sentence and take it as a whole before you let your blood boil.
I deliberately copied the entire quote to preserve the full context. That juxtaposition is a tonal choice representative of the article's broader narrative, i.e. "agents are so powerful that they're potentially a dangerous new threat!".
replyI'm arguing against that hype. This is nothing new, everyone has been talking about LLMs being used to harass and spam the internet for years.