Yeah this article lays it out much better than the verge. > “On the other hand, LLMs are weapons of mass fabrication,” said Alexios Mantzarlis, co-author of th

Yeah this article lays it out much better than the verge. > “On the other hand, LLMs are weapons of mass fabrication,” said Alexios Mantzarlis, co-author of the Indicator, a newsletter about digital deception. “Fabulists can now bog down reporters with evidence credible enough that it warrants review at a scale not possible before. The time you spent engaging with this made up story is time you did not spend on real leads. I have no idea of the motive of the poster — my assumption is it was just a prank — but distracting and bogging down media with bogus leads is also a tactic of Russian influence operations (see Operation Overload).” Crazy new times ahead.