[syntex]

The Post-LLM World: Fighting Digital Garbage https://archive.org/details/paper_20260127/mode/2up

Mini paper: that future isn’t the AI replacing humans. its about humans drowning in cheap artifacts. New unit of measurement proposed: verification debt. Also introduces: Recursive Garbage → model collapse

a little joke on Prism)

[Springtime]

> The Post-LLM World: Fighting Digital Garbage https://archive.org/details/paper_20260127/mode/2up

This appears to just be the output of LLMs itself? It credits GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 exclusively as authors, has a public domain license (appropriate for AI output) and is only several paragraphs in length.

[doodlesdev]

Which proves its own points! Absolutely genius! The cost asymmetry of producing and checking for garbage truly is becoming a problem in the recent years, with the advent of LLMs and generative AI in general.

[parentheses]

Totally agree!

I feel like this means that working in any group where individuals compete against each other results in an AI vs AI content generation competition, where the human is stuck verifying/reviewing.

[dormento]

> Totally agree!

Not a dig on your (very sensible) comment, but now I always do a double take when I see anyone effusively approving of someone else's ideas. AI turned me into a cynical bastard :(

[syntex]

Yes, I did it as a joke inspired by the PRISM release. But unexpectedly, it makes a good point. And the funny part for was that the paper lists only LLMs as authors.

Also, in a world where AI output is abundant, we humans become the scarce resource the "tools" in the system that provide some connectivity to reality (grounding) for LLM

[mrbonner]

Plot twist: humans become the new Proof of Work consensus mechanism. Instead of GPUs burning electricity to hash blocks, we burn our sanity verifying whether that Medium article was written by a person or a particularly confident LLM.

"Human Verification as a Service": finally, a lucrative career where the job description is literally "read garbage all day and decide if it's authentic garbage or synthetic garbage." LinkedIn influencers will pivot to calling themselves "Organic Intelligence Validators" and charge $500/hr to squint at emails and go "yeah, a human definitely wrote this passive-aggressive Slack message."

The irony writes itself: we built machines to free us from tedious work, and now our job is being the tedious work for the machines. Full circle. Poetic even. Future historians (assuming they're still human and not just Claude with a monocle) will mark this as the moment we achieved peak civilization: where the most valuable human skill became "can confidently say whether another human was involved."

Bullish on verification miners. Bearish on whatever remains of our collective attention span.

[kinduff]

Human CAPTCHA exists to figure out whether your clients are human or not, so you can segment them and apply human pricing. Synthetics, of course, fall into different tiers. The cheaper ones.

[direwolf20]

Bullish on verifiers who accept money to verify fake things