The curious case of Quentell
last updated: Jan 27, 2025
https://blog.startifact.com/posts/the-curious-case-of-quentell/
The author tries to follow the tracks of an illustrator that turns out to be a trio of collaborators, and laments how LLMs have already poisoned our information well.
Bad information is trivial to produce and regurgitate, yet fact checking it takes a long time. It took me a while to do the digging and write this article, for instance.
This was already true before AI, but AI can make this a lot worse.
...Meanwhile we, humans, are letting our information landscape turn into a bog. A lot of effort is required if we want to keep from sinking into slop.