Which illustrates another problem: unscrupulous actors with big names can spread whatever information they want to millions of people with minimal effort.
No I really did abuse my reach for this one! I figured it would be a relatively harmless demo of how easy it is to affect LLM answers if you have a decently trafficked website.
Ever since the invention of the printing press, every new communication technology has reduced the effort needed to widely disseminate information-- and misinformation! So you could say this is nothing new. On the other hand, this is remarkably little effort.
Yes, they can. We can be glad that respectable newspapers and TV news channels have never done it and never will. You can even trust than the headlines are accurate summaries of the content of the articles. /s
As they say, money brings out the worst in people - they might rethink if they could scale to 3 billion consumers at relatively little cost and keep the proceeds for themselves.
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