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The LLM Con Artists Are Highly Destructive

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 24, 2025

hardware forever

Sam Altman’s Younger Sister Files Lawsuit Claiming He Sexually Abused Her: Will you trust this man and cushion 40 billion dollars in debt for him? Saying he bought many GPUs is just 'crypto' bro talk.

About 20 years ago (summer 2005) I began writing my thesis and I also stopped updating my personal site as much as I had done in prior years. The following years I devoted - or would gradually devote - almost all my writing time/resources to this site. That was in 2006. Despite this, my "old" (personal) site still serves about 350,000 requests so far this month to a diverse range of IP addresses (AWStats says over 50,000 this month), but having taken time to look at the requests (Mr. Oliva said his IP addresses had been blocked, so he could not read this latest article; that's the only reason I logged in and checked) I now realise many are nasty bots, much like those which attacked Techrights this past week or so. It got so bad that my Webhost started blocking certain IP ranges for everyone (all sites) at the datacentre/network level. Suffice to say, it's bad that statistics became meaningless due to that, innocent visitors (like Mr. Oliva) got blocked at multiple levels, and I too am sometimes blocked from accessing sites because my IP address made it into some blocklists/blacklists. Even some capsules in Geminispace erroneously marked my IP address as offending, then the operators boasted about how they dealt with LLMs (without quite realising there were many false positives; eager humans are prevented/denied access!).

The FSF (where Mr. Oliva is) recently wrote at least 3 articles about its fight against LLM slop bots. Even some in the "tech" media wrote about it.

The LLM slop bubble/scam isn't just bad for the planet in the pollution/emissions sense; it's actually destroying a lot of the Web and ruining news sites. It's an attack on human knowledge, information, and communication.

Who will ever be held accountable for this scam?

Scam Altman isn't yet held accountable for allegedly engaging in sexual acts on his own sister (incest), so why expect corporate abuses to bear any more accountability?

That Microsoft is shoehorning this scam into its "business plan" isn't too shocking. It's already laying off its own "AI" staff. It just doesn't want shareholders (that placed trillions of funny money into a speculative black hole) to find out.

The other day we saw fake news (propping up a scam of Scam Altman) claiming that the company owns trillions worth of GPUs; that's not just utterly false, it's part of a pattern of media as pyramid scam enabler. That fake news (with the number $3 trillion in it) came from the same site which days ago The Register poached a Microsoft booster from. A company set to be 30 billion dollars in debt getting the media to parrot "$3 trillion" (in 'assets') is really the hallmark of a Ponzi scheme. Remember FTX? It's linked to the Serial Strangler from Microsoft through his former employer (which he still boasts about).

That Microsoft hired Scam Altman is "business as usual". Microsoft is a magnet for scammers and bad people like Scam Altman.

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