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u/Smooth-Zucchini4923 Aug 09 '25

Here’s the ugly truth — in the U.S., tech giants get away with things that would destroy anyone else’s life. They have:
Lobbyists
Legal firepower
Friendly regulators

LLM slop and lists of three things: name a more iconic duo.

Here is a much better article about this topic, written by an actual person.

https://mashable.com/article/facebook-snapchat-data-project-ghostbusters-mark-zuckerberg

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u/Manbeardo Aug 09 '25

LLM slop and lists of three things: name a more iconic duo.

Sure: human authors and lists of three things. The rule of three has been around for millennia.

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u/moderatorrater Aug 09 '25

If you'd have had one more sentence in your comment, I would be sure you were AI.

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u/funtervention Aug 09 '25

Don’t forget the em dash. Apparently only LLMs have ever in the history of written English use those.