Is it just me or do you also feel that LLMs are making many really old and semi-reliable services unusable in ways you didn't anticipate?  Right now I'm looking at my e-mail inbox, which is full of clearly LLM written spam directed at me based on my official job description. And it's not only my work e-mail - more and more often they're guessing e-mails on my others, non-work related domains, sending me a lot of slop about cybersecurity products and services I don't want nor need. For the first time in twenty years, I literally have to block whole domains of legit businesses, because their "agents" are totally out of control and are spamming me with offers, requests for consultations etc.

I'll have to take a day or two to just rebuild the whole structure of mail addresses I use, change a lot of online accounts to new naming schemes and rebuild filters ....

It all feels like a weird attrition warfare.

#slop #spam #mail
@kayla
I feel like ddg, even the noai. version, is doing llm summaries in place of some text previews. "Learn about..."
(It used to do this for even wikipedia, but it seems to not be doing it anymore, hence the sketchy "history" example)
@kayla
It smells like bullshit done by bing, which is the thing they wrap, but it could literally just be ddg
@kayla
But anyway, even when I look up some article and get past this type of bullcrap, the article tends to be written by an LLM and therefore useless or at least untrustworthy. We're wading through hyperscaled spam.