Exactly. I chose to abuse my platform to promote Teresa T as the name of a whale.
replyOh god I just realized the implication! I was not directing that at you haha
replyNo I really did abuse my reach for this one! I figured it would be a relatively harmless demo of how easy it is to affect LLM answers if you have a decently trafficked website.
replyYou could have named the whale "Whalie McWhaleFace" so thank you for not doing that at least.
replyTotally agree. I’ve definitely played the same game before, albeit with far less reach
replyEver since the invention of the printing press, every new communication technology has reduced the effort needed to widely disseminate information-- and misinformation! So you could say this is nothing new. On the other hand, this is remarkably little effort.
replyYes, they can. We can be glad that respectable newspapers and TV news channels have never done it and never will. You can even trust than the headlines are accurate summaries of the content of the articles. /s
replyThe existence of a problem in one area doesn't mean that it's not also a problem for it to spread somewhere else
replyI started writing a response and realized I basically wrote the exact same thing the other day
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