Really feels like AIs are propaganda 2.0, and I'm not talking just about deepfakes.

First, to clear things up: when I say propaganda, I don't mean Stalinist propaganda (ie. gaslighting). I'm talking about Putinist propaganda: saying anything and everything from every direction. Propaganda designed not to make you believe, but to overwhelm you. To make it so hard to sift trough the junk and get the real thing that most people would rather just give up.

LLM code is basically that: as it floods every facet of the tech world, from commercial software to open source projects, you're left either accepting it, or constantly fleeing to a shrinking number of projects and communities that decided to not go down without a fight. And it's exhausting. Every day it feels like more and more projects are giving in, you become paranoid of every piece of software you've grown to rely on over the years, and sometimes you want to just give up. I know that's what it feels like for me sometimes.

But that's what they want. They want everyone to just give up and accept their role in the machine. It's not easy, but we have to resist it