[meindnoch]

>They could offer value, but just rarely, at least with the LLM/model/context they used.

Eating human excrement can also offer value in the form of undigested pieces of corn and other seeds. Are you interested?

[ElFitz]

Funnily enough, fecal transplants (Fecal Microbiota Transplants, FMT) are a thing, used to help treat a range of diseases. It’s even being investigated to help treat depression.

So…

[Applejinx]

Oh, certainly. I know that if I was the test subject, no matter what else happened it wouldn't be the worst thing done to me that day :)

[javcasas]

I'm sure it does. But would you like one every other week like the llm slop?

[ElFitz]

Honestly, regarding the whole "LLM slop" thing, I don’t care. I get why others do, but I just don’t.

I don’t care how that sausage is made. Heck, sometimes gen AI even allows people who otherwise wouldn’t have had the time or skills to come up with funny things.

What annoys me is all the spam SEO-gamed websites with low information density drowning the answer I’m actually looking for in pages of empty sentences.

When they haven’t just gamed their way to the top of search results without actually containing any answer.

And that didn’t need LLMs to exist. Just greed and actors with interests unaligned with mine. Such as Google’s former head of ads, apparently. [0][1]

[0]: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

[1]: https://www.wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-raghavan/