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Given:

• The web is increasingly drowning in LLM spamblogs that generate any plausible text that maximizes SEO and drives clicks.
• An appreciable and increasing proportion of those clicks are LLMs crawling for input data
• The statistical language generation function of LLMs is different from human language by any value larger than none
• Many of these spambots have little if any active supervision

It must necessarily be true, then, that:

• language models partially drive the loss function for generated text
• language models make different words than we make
• language models like different words than we like
• there are some websites that only language models go on
• there are some websites that are very popular, only with language models
• there is an increasingly large shadow internet that is not dead internet, but a "live" internet, by language models, for language models, that will become increasingly untethered from human language and is entirely powered by grift