Sadly, I’m not too surprised. Check this shit out, published back in November 2025: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25137.
“We simulated 151 million American workers [using LLMs] to see what proportion of tasks they do that can also be done by AI”.
Much more recently, Esquire couldn’t get ahold of an actor for an interview and so decided to generate the actors responses using Claude: https://esquiresg.com/mackenyu-one-piece-roronoa-zoro-interview/.
We had the photospread, but nothing directly uttered by the 29-year-old. With a driving need for a feature, we had to be inventive. Harnessing our creative license, we pulled his verbatim from previous interviews and fed them through an AI programme to formulate new responses.
Are these the words we expect from Mackenyu? Or are they just replies from an echo chamber of celebrity-hood that we want to believe is from him?
With the absence of information, can new insights be gained?
Nature abhors a vacuum, and in its place, a story fills the hollow.
Somehow it is currently accepted by a certain portion of people that LLM-based systems can be used to replace actually existing human beings.
Doing an interview with an LLM trained on a real person feels like libel.
This might be the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard.
Why bother asking people when you can just ask AI to make answers.
I could go even cheaper by just thinking about it really hard and guessing
Hey at least this is one poll result rather than zero
honestly it’d probably be better unless you’re actively hallucinating bullshit
Any scientific publications accidentally posting an article not based on the actual scientific method should be immediately punished by law or we are lost. It’s time they used the hordes of money they accumulated during the easy part to now prove themselves and perform their actual function in society.
So it’s just another scam.
Sure, our polls mean nothing, but think about the money you can save!!!
What the actual fuck??
That’s fucking stupid.
You beat me to it. I was going to comment that this is literally the stupidest shit I have ever heard in my goddamn life.
Ah, yes, lies.
Technically, these are damned lies because they’ve been summarized.
Great, so now they’re outsourcing our own fucking opinions to them
This just in: 95% of poll respondents think tech bro oligarchy is a really swell idea.
We are keen on ai allright. Until we can burn it to the ground.
Wait till these Silicon Sampling reports start popping up in election exit-polls.
We’re going to get levels of “Proven Election Fraud” and “Illegal Immigrant Voter Invasion” hysteria the likes of which you’ve never seen.
We are living through a great filter event and we aren’t going to come through the other side
Pretty much by definition. Nobody lives forever.
But I’d say the Great Filter of the modern moment is more aimed at the technology than the people. What we’re stress-testing is traditional modes of communication. How much noise can be generated before the signal is lost?
We have enough people without the general ability to critically think that the fallout will be that we will rush into a probable Nuclear war coupled with ignoring climate change till it’s too late. Meanwhile Billionaires are undermining democracy across the globe chasing short term profits and power. A filter event doesn’t have to be a single thing, more likely it’s a bunch of events all building to the actual “filter”.
We are well and truly fucked.
We have enough people without the general ability to critically think
Everyone has the ability to think critically. What you often stumble on is their priors. People who have accumulated a body of understanding or a logic flow that is totally alien to you don’t seem to follow any kind of rational behavior patterns.
the fallout will be that we will rush into a probable Nuclear war coupled with ignoring climate change till it’s too late
We’ve been predicting imminent interstate thermonuclear war since the last bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Nearly a century later, we’ve never used one in an overt act of aggression. There’s a whole litany of reasons why. But the hard truth of it is that nuclear weapons aren’t any more efficient than nuclear power plants. You can get a lot more bang for your buck doing violence the conventional way. And we’ve done just that for decades.
Meanwhile Billionaires are undermining democracy across the globe
What we’re discovering is how little democracy there was to undermine. But, again, this isn’t news to anyone who has been paying attention. What’s shifted is demographics, not politics. The formerly hegemonic upper-middle class white male voter is no longer the dominant political face or voice, outside of the increasingly cloistered echo chambers of reactionary state-sanctioned media.
Even the fucking billionaires don’t have the decency to be interchangeable WASP stereotypes. So now we’re seeing a real crisis in continuity of governance, as Middle Easterners and East Asians and South Africans and Latin Americans all pop their heads up into the top rungs of the bureaucracy.
What we are seeing in the modern era isn’t a degraded democracy. It’s a civil war between the various plutocrats who they they should inherit the American Throne.
We are well and truly fucked.
The blinders are coming off your eyes as you learn more about the real function of the world at-large. And this can be immediately shocking, to the point that you assume “We’re at the end of the world!”
But to quote from the sage words of Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism:
Capitalist realism as I understand it cannot be confined to art or to the quasi-propagandistic way in which advertising functions. It is more like a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining thought and action.
and, therefore
it is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism
What we’re witnessing is the end of an era. It’s a thing every generation gets to bare witness to over enough time. It isn’t the end of The World, just the end of the world you were born into.
I really enjoy when people dont know the difference between democracy and republic. Democracy isnt failing, it simply hasnt been tried since athens. Whats failing is the system of corruption people like to call a “republic”. Why tf you would elect people to represent your interests instead of representing your interests is beyond me. Republics are the original ‘outsourcing your thinking’ creation.
Democracy isnt failing, it simply hasnt been tried
Jesus Christ dude, crack a civics book. We have a litany of mechanisms for direct popular governance already in place. My state constitution gets updated with a raft of popularly chosen amendments every election cycle.
Why tf you would elect people to represent your interests instead of representing your interests
Elected bureaucracy is not the only mode of civil engagement
Should just have it handle voting as well. They could call it Automatic Democracy.
None of that pesky informed voting, you can just instruct an AI company on what your stance is, and it’ll vote in your stead.
Funny thing, every now and then someone makes these questionnaire websites where you answer questions about policy and it tells you which party is most in alignment. Pretty much universally most people turn out to be more to the left than their voting history and intentions would suggest.
Honestly, I wish(not like this, of course). Most people vote based on propaganda and not actual policy so it would be kinda sweet to see people’s vote actually alogn with their goals for fucking once.
Crossposting to fuck_ai if you don’t mind.
Holy fuck. It can simulate large samplings or it can just hallucinate some nonsensical BS that completely misinterprets the data it gathers in order to agree with the phrasing of the person who created the prompt.
Do the majority of people trust their doctors and nurses? Maybe. Or, maybe it depends on the context of the question.
Do I trust my doctors and nurses are a better source of information than random internet advice and AI generated slop? I would hope so.
Do I trust that the American healthcare system is set up to prioritize the health and well-being of the patient over maximizing profits and forcing healthcare workers to adhere to standardized time allotments of 10 to 15 minutes for every patient interaction regardless of the individual case? Absolutely not.
Yep. AI, such as it is, can be useful for some things. I had had a song kinda stuck in my head for years, couldn’t remember the lyrics, artist, or song name - only that it was in french and done stuff from the video. ChatGPT worked it out quickly. On the other hand, I was using it to look up definitions for a legal case I’m kinda involved in that hasn’t really happened before - I know I shouldn’t, but I’m not a lawyer! - and I found it was using my own case which has not been decided as evidence.
So yeah, they can be impressive but you can’t trust these programmes with anything important.
