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> The honest truth > That loss is real and it's worth naming I think I will not heed the first sentence and bear with this. What motivates people to do this?
by applfanboysbgon 3mo ago
> The honest truth
> That loss is real and it's worth naming
I think I will not heed the first sentence and bear with this. What motivates people to do this? What do they get out of prompting Claude for some vapid "thought piece" and spamming it on the internet?
- greyface- 3mo agoClicks, views, attention. This blog is part of Pydantic's sales funnel.
- hyperhello 3mo agoIt's just as easy to do the second one as the first one.
- jongjong 3mo ago> That loss is real and it's worth naming Yep classic Claude-ism. The fact that this article was likely AI generated is the real load-bearing factor in this discussion. Or, as previous versions of Claude would say; it cuts through the heart of the issue.
- singingtoday 3mo agoIt got a lot of clicks here. Clicks equal money.
- inigyou 3mo agoWhat does any spammer get from their spam?
- applfanboysbgon 3mo agoWell, usually advertising themselves. Spambots used to be really straightforward. "Come buy our penis enlargement pills at x.com!". I guess this is also meant to be an advertisement but it's really roundabout. And while this case is maybe an ad, a lot of these LLM spam articles are on empty blogs not associated with a product.
- queenkjuul 3mo agoI read "honest" and thought, "look at me, i can't even read the word honest without thinking it's Claude" Then i read "is real and it's worth naming" and thought god dammit, these assholes actually did use Claude