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As I continue research for my Computing documentary, I am dismayed by the volume of AI slop through which I must wade, vomitus chunks of misinformation amplified by mindless multitudes of agentic slop-makers, making it increasingly difficult to find truth in the noise.

Thank goodness for my library of real, physical books, each a conversation with another real thinking, feeling human.

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Recently I enjoyed getting all the LLMs to turn themselves inside out about their own origins. Initially they claimed McCarthy was the origin but when prodded would admit that formal logic was a dead end and perceptions were Cybernetics instead! Sadly, their models are static.

The reason is, of course, that McCarthy had all the funding, tenures, government contracts etc and the feedback theory lunatics who were copying biology and then creating backprop of error were largely forgotten. The LLMs learn from the vast swathe of half truths peddled in the 70s!