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Multiple readings Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · 404 Media
“"We’re also seeing this alongside incredibly risky sourcing, teens posting about wanting to grow an extra few inches. And then we’re seeing AI manipulation from vendors trying to promote these peptides.” www.404media.co/companies-ar...” evidence ↗
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404 Media Joanna Bryson Joseph Cox Sarah T Roberts, PhD Christopher Mims Jason Koebler Djamé 🟥 Mél Hogan / The Data Fix +3
3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Joanna Bryson: So we all knew how to “google bomb” back in the 00s (remember liar -> Tony Blair?) by linking one page from several others. Is there a gemini bomb? how do we do it? (Hard to believe it’s “unintenti…
Lilian Edwards: It's "LLM grooming" now I believe and takes state actor level resources
Joanna Bryson: Have you a Url about that, by chance?
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The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Artificial Intelligence Papers
“The Pain Axis: LLMs Represent Self-Directed Harm and Act to Relieve It Valen Tagliabue, Leonard Dung, Cameron Berg https://t.co/nYmPBylQ0Q [𝚌𝚜.𝙰𝙸] https://t.co/x4YlUD397V” evidence ↗
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Chris Paxton Grace Artificial Intelligence Papers rev. howard arson René Walter
3 experts discussed this · 11 posts
Grace: I will register some frustration with Anthropic, who tend to write about “functional emotions” in a way that makes it seems like “functional” is in a tiny font and “emotions” is in a huge one, when…
Grace: I also don’t want to draw strong conclusions about the “realness” of these emotions or sensations, other than to caution that it’s an area where it’s easy to jump to conclusions about the implicati…
Grace: I don’t want to downplay it too much, because I’m honestly not sure if I would’ve predicted it beforehand, but in hindsight it looks pretty expected given the pretraining objective. You should expe…
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Established AI business Analysis 5d ago
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Doctorow LLMs real AI fake essay

Pluralistic: LLMs are real, AI is fake (12 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
“When the press reports on a "Black October" of catastrophic, AI-fueled data breaches and hack attacks, they don't mention a generation of policymakers' indifference and hostility to information security: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...” evidence ↗
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) René Walter

“When the press reports on a "Black October" of catastrophic, AI-fueled data breaches and hack attacks, they don't mention a generation of policymakers' indifference and hostility to information security: pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...”

“I really like this emerging frame here: "the importance of separating LLMs (the technology) from AI (the product and vision of the AI companies)" terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/h... "LLMs are real, AI is fake." pluralistic.net/2026/09/12/g...”

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