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The actual solution is damn simple and painfully obvious: make things like so-called "prediction markets" illegal.

The intelligence community came to the conclusion (after research and experiments) that things like "prediction markets" were a bad idea in 1996.

Far worse now than then, with the net and AI of 2026 and the insane number of people now online that want to make an easy buck.

Don't get me wrong; I am guessing some of us on here would do well on those places. But they should not exist.

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Isn't this the NRA's argument? The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

Or at least somewhere between that and full on protection racket.

LLMs come on the scene, hammer the site until it goes offline or racks up bills that threaten bankruptcy, and the solution then is to pay for an LLM to fix it and monitor it.

That's a real nice site ya got there, it would be a shame if massive datacenters going up around the world were to start hammering it from tens of thousands of IP addresses....

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