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.

On a similar note, washing my hands in warm water after after they were chilled by the morning air felt fuckin’ magical.

That’s great to hear!

I’m disappointed there’s no threadiverse integration.

The basic grunt work of bringing together bluesky and mastodon feeds is pretty decently done, if a bit opinionated.

I like the concept and presentation of their feed “packages”, but for most of the feeds I’ve been proposed in the app I’m not interested in the entire package. It’s nice that you can still directly follow the actors packaged into a feed from that feed’s page.

It’s very annoying that Surf wants their/my Surf account to act as the intermediary for my mastodon account. From what I can see, this means I need to exit the app to take some action with my mastodon account. Maybe I just haven’t found the option, but if there isn’t one then it’s a hard blocker for me to use it as my main fediverse browser.