I think well intentioned, public access, blackhat security research has its merits. The case reminds me of security researchers publishing malicious npm packages.
>The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
It's in bad faith when people seriously tell you they don't expect something when they make rules against it.
With LLMs anonymous discourse is just even more broken. When reading comments like this, I am convinced this study was a gift.
LLMs are practically shouting it from the rooftops, what should be a hard but well-known truth for anybody who engages in serious anonymous online discourse: We need new ways for online accountability and authenticity.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
It's not a system that can support serious debates without immense restrictions on anonymity, and those restrictions in turn become immense privacy issues 10 years later.
People really need to understand that you're supposed to have fun on the Internet, and if you aren't having fun, why be there at all?
Most importantly, I don't like how the criticism on the situation, specially some seen here, push for abdication of either privacy or of debates. There is more than one website on the Internet! You can have a website that requires ID to post, and another website that is run by an LLM that censors all political content. Those two ideas can co-exist in the vastness of the web and people are free to choose which website to visit.
19/f/miami
This stuff has been going on since AOL messenger
Considering the great and growing percentage of a person’s communications, interactions, discussions, and debates that take place online, I think we have little choice but to try to facilitate doing this as safely, constructively, and with as much integrity as possible. The assumptions and expectations of CMV might seem naive given the current state of A.I. and whatnot, but this was less of a problem in previous years and it has been a more controlled environment than the internet at large. And commendable to attempt