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trjordan • today at 1:01 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

There's an age-old SEO / spamming thing happening here, but it's made worse by the LLMs just being unbelievably credulous. They'll wrap anything up in a veneer of authenticity, and Google's search AI box only adds to that.

I run into this all the time when I'm doing product work. I'll dump a call transcript from a feedback call into Claude, and it'll believe every word. "The user said they'd use this feature, you should build it!" No they won't! The whole point of doing this analysis is trying to separate the genuine information from the conversational niceties, and god the LLMs are terrible at that.