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Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.

https://www.404media.co/this-web-tool-sabotages-ai-chatbots-by-making-them-really-really-slow/

This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow

Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.

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Show threadaproposnix11h ago
@404mediaco so you mean to tell me that by installing LLMs on my laptop, all this time I was creating art? Cool. :)
Show threadAllie!10h ago

@404mediaco “Lavigne is not an absolutist, however. Without prompting, he admitted that he used Claude to help write some of the code for Slow LLM—until, of course, Slow LLM started working and forced him to complete the project on his own.”

lol, lmao even