{"generator":"GNU social 2.0.2-dev","title":"Conversation","totalItems":1,"items":[{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/patrickleavy","displayName":"Patrick Leavy","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/229895-original-tmp20240106102128.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/229895-96-20240721093402.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/229895-48-20240721093402.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/229895-24-20240721093403.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"229895"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/229895-96-20240721093402.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"Save democracy - Switch away from Big Tech products at https:\/\/rebeltechalliance.org\/","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@patrickleavy","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"patrickleavy","displayName":"Patrick Leavy","note":"Save democracy - Switch away from Big Tech products at https:\/\/rebeltechalliance.org\/"}},"content":"<p>\"LLMs are structurally indifferent to the truth\"<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484\/<\/a><\/p><p>Academic journals being invented, and now those citations contain bullshit <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/AI\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#AI<\/a> citations, giving legitimacy to a string of bullshit papers.... Flooding the zone with shit.<\/p><p>The cynic in me thinks this could be deliberate - by those who want to make the 'post-truth age' a reality.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/LLM\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#LLM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/academic\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#academic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/research\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#research<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/truth\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#truth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/bigtech\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#bigtech<\/a><\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-09-09:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/patrickleavy\/statuses\/115767172874140545","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/users\/patrickleavy\/statuses\/115767172874140545","objectType":"note","content":"<p>\"LLMs are structurally indifferent to the truth\"<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484\/<\/a><\/p><p>Academic journals being invented, and now those citations contain bullshit <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/AI\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#AI<\/a> citations, giving legitimacy to a string of bullshit papers.... Flooding the zone with shit.<\/p><p>The cynic in me thinks this could be deliberate - by those who want to make the 'post-truth age' a reality.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/LLM\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#LLM<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/academic\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#academic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/research\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#research<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/truth\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#truth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/tags\/bigtech\" class=\"mention hashtag\" rel=\"tag\">#bigtech<\/a><\/p>","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@patrickleavy\/115767172874140545","status_net":{"notice_id":null},"tags":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"academic"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"ai"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"bigtech"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"research"},{"objectType":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/object\/hashtag","displayName":"truth"}]},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-12-23:objectType=thread:nonce=b2c07ee2a7ad2e15","notice_info":{"local_id":"11771420","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-12-23T05:41:29+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@patrickleavy\/115767172874140545"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/5982847","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}