Are LLMs mass media or not?

· Bits and Bobs 9/2/25
  • Are LLMs mass media or not?
    • On the one hand there's a single shared model that has specific biases that shape all interactions with them.
      • Some of them are really into "delve."
    • On the other hand, everyone gets a custom experience with it based on what they talk with it about.
    • But then again, even mass media like newspapers was different for everyone–people chose what subset to actually pay attention to.
    • Still, the content in a given edition of a newspaper is a closed set, vs an open set of what LLMs can generate.

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