Illuminlast
@illuminlast.bsky.social
(M, 20's) People are not machines. Machines are not people.
Hoping to get a B.Sc. in Environment and Energy + start a career in that field.
Learning to use Linux (Mint).
I'm into RPG games, hiking, and art/music. Anti-car dependency. Learning German. ☮
Hoping to get a B.Sc. in Environment and Energy + start a career in that field.
Learning to use Linux (Mint).
I'm into RPG games, hiking, and art/music. Anti-car dependency. Learning German. ☮
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I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
Information literacy and chatbots as search
By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...
buttondown.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I've been shouting about this since Google first floated the idea of LLMs as a replacement for search in 2021. Synthetic text is not a suitable tool for information access!
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
/fin (for now)
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Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.
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It's inevitable. Someone is going to shit in the pool, so we have to shit in the pool FIRST and HARDEST.
November 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
It's inevitable. Someone is going to shit in the pool, so we have to shit in the pool FIRST and HARDEST.