A lot of new user submissions these days to LW are clearly some poor person who was sycophantically encouraged by an AI to post their crazy theory of cognition or consciousness or recursion or social coordination on LessWrong after telling them their ideas are great. When we send them moderation messages we frequently get LLM-co-written responses, and sometimes they send us quotes from an AI that has evaluated their research as promising and high-quality as proof that they are not a crackpot.
A lot of new user submissions these days to LW are clearly some poor person who was sycophantically encouraged by an AI to post their crazy theory of cognition or consciousness or recursion or social coordination on LessWrong after telling them their ideas are great. When we send them moderation messages we frequently get LLM-co-written responses, and sometimes they send us quotes from an AI that has evaluated their research as promising and high-quality as proof that they are not a crackpot.