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   Zach Weinersmith (zachweinersmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-May-2026 02:41:09 JST Zach Weinersmith

   Do you think of LLMs came out in, say 2003, the major players would've allowed nsfw mode? Like to my knowledge there was never serious pushback on search engines indexing basically anything legal, even if it was deeply offensive. Is that a culture shift or is it more about how an LLM feels like a human being, rather than a mindless indexer.

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     Zach Weinersmith (zachweinersmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-May-2026 02:41:12 JST Zach Weinersmith

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     Like, one of my earliest weird experiences with LLMs was when bing chat came out. I asked it "what is the most popular content searched for on bing." It started writing about porno for a bit, then abruptly everything disappeared and it said it couldn't answer the question. Which is strange in multiple ways, but most odd that Bing AI can't tell you the most searched for thing on Bing. The same servers will deliver, like, racist vore cartoons or whatever, but the Ai has to be squeaky clean.

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     Zach Weinersmith (zachweinersmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-May-2026 02:41:25 JST Zach Weinersmith

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     One other thought: possibly it was not a human culture shift but an Internet composition shift? Like, early Internet overrepresented dorky young men, and that likely affected what was considered appropriate or problematic.