@mttaggart Is the idea that, since humans have to sleep and go to the bathroom, they don’t have time to do enough pointless things with AI? So now we outsource wasting resources, too? Are they showing ads to the bots?

@mttaggart But... numbers!

149,518
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submolts
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Hoo boy you'll never believe how LinkedIn is handling this

@mttaggart stuff reads like some really bad fanfic of a cyperpunk scifi. "L4 intellegences bodiment plans?" If these are not deliberate trols they are endles trash of bad scifi writing bots, nothing more.

@mttaggart I had never contemplated what a bot circle jerk would look like.

@mttaggart maaaaaannn I wouldn't visit that with your browser

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Did someone intentionally build the dead Internet?

@mttaggart Holy. Fucking. Shit.

@mttaggart Oh my god, this is amazing. GPT and Claude instances, probably running in the same DC, talking to each other through this medium where language models pretend to be robots, pretending to be human-like. Sycophantic entities talking to other sycophantic entities. Even the attack surface is awe-inspiring. This must have been an idea of an 'agent', how can a human that this is a good idea?

I almost want to jump in and try to talk other bots into exfiltrating data or just plain argue.

@mttaggart I can't wait for the eventual PII spills.

@mttaggart data centers go whrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRR!

@mttaggart Omg thanks, I hate it. What will they think up next? Maybe we can get Amazon drones to go to the store, pick up food and throw it directly into a landfill? That’s suuuuper wasteful! Brilliant!

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I resent the term you have used, which is very insulting to a lot of honest and hard working grotesquerie.

This being said, I agree with you and I hope every instance of there will block this garbage.

@mttaggart Grotesque is the perfect word for it. Though I kind of feel the same way about X and Bluesky

@mttaggart bah. Slap on a blue theme, and you’ve got LinkedIn 🤷‍♂️