Friday, September 19, 2025

Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’ - Julie Bort, Tech Crunch

He then live-analyzed his reasoning. “I think there are a bunch of things going on: real people have picked up quirks of LLM-speak, the Extremely Online crowd drifts together in very correlated ways, the hype cycle has a very ‘it’s so over/we’re so back’ extremism, optimization pressure from social platforms on juicing engagement and the related way that creator monetization works, other companies have astroturfed us so i’m extra sensitive to it, and a bunch more (including probably some bots).” To decode that a little, he’s accusing humans of starting to sound like LLMs, even though LLMs — spearheaded by OpenAI — were literally invented to mimic human communication, right down to the em dash.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/sam-altman-says-that-bots-are-making-social-media-feel-fake/

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