“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”…

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    Their methodology is so astonishingly flawed at the most fundamental level I had to read it twice.

    They got a ton of LLMs to simulate how they thought real people would react to changes in their feeds.

    The entire study is built on less than sand. Someone needs to sit them down and slowly explain to them how LLMs actually work.

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      Ha yeah. The “AI” grift is a foundation for other grifts. The shitty “science” will keep getting worse and more widespread.

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    Funny that it basically raises Fediverse as the the solution without actually mentioning it…