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LLMs enabling paranoia and delusions

2025-12-29 20:36:52.909836+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

In a thread about an uptick of contacts to Bellingcat from "people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works" Eliot Higgins ‪@eliothiggins.bsky.social‬ notes that many of the previous tells, all caps, wacky coloring, random screenshots, are being replaced with a sameness of writing:

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.

It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

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