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.

"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it"

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.

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