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Guarding the Gates of Knowledge
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A recent scroll through social media got me thinking about trust. About half my feed was filled with AI slop that astute users would call out as being machine-generated, often to the embarrassment of the rube who unknowingly spread it and sometimes to the delight of the poster who shared it deliberately because they found it amusing or useful for sowing confusion.Remember the good old days of GPT-3 when we could ask the chatbot anything and it would almost instantly and very confidently spit bac
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