The Sloppification of Peptides

bamboozled

But, what actually are the benefits of all this peptide ingestion ? Does it replace, Good Food, Sleep and an exercise ?

elliotec

A robots.txt explicitly allowing LLMs has nothing to do with whether it was made for humans or not and is generally the right move assuming you want your site picked up and recommended by AI tools. No different than allowing search engine crawlers to pick it up and the authors focus on that is bizarre when the rest of the evidence is so stark.

aweb

"Anyone who’s not been living under a rock knows that we’re in full peptide mania." No, they don't, it's a very Silicon Valley specific thing and I never heard about them here in France. People need to stop thinking their experience generalizes by default

zzzeek

This article is not so much about peptides it's about entirely AI generated ecosystems. The goal is to promote questionably scammy commercial interests, or obviously political interests as I'm sure is happening also, by creating whole webs of semi convincing looking portals, discussion boards, review sites, community activity, etc, all fake. The blog post rightly points out we should get good at spotting all this but this is not the scary part, the scary part is that the audience for these ecosystems is not even humans, it's the big AI players like Gemini and ChatGPT, and those are places that a lot of people are going to get information and advice on things. I use Gemini quite a lot and lately I've already noticed it's very quick to give me a broad spectrum vibe on some issue or topic and not good at all at backing it up with reputable sources. So I think this is potentially a very ominous development of the entire web itself becomes a giant poisoned cauldron of untrustworthy AI maliciously influencing "trustworthy" AIs. Update: i fed this comment into Gemini and asked "what is Google doing about this?" and it produced a very long, detailed answer, leading off with tagging this as the so-called "internet ouroboros" problem. For those who don't feel like doing the same, I can distill it's answer as follows: "Yo. Chill. We got this, bro. Lol" so we're good!

HtmlProgrammer

“stay strapped” is a fantastic sign off.

cure_42

Is this an ad for "pangram"? Reads like one to me. Not much of anything related to peptides was actually communicated, which makes the insult about your reader's potential ignorance of peptides even more unnecessary.

serf

was any evidence ever given? >"The trained eye, weary of vibe coded designs, will see Claude Code’s aesthetic fingerprint all over this. " yeah, everyone is re-doing old interfaces with LLMs. >"They're hosted on AlexHost" yeah, they're selling grey market pharma. Now, I have no problems saying that the whole thing is a bot driven scam -- it probably is , grey market web is filled with scams -- but there was no evidence given; just an ad for a magic tool that detects AI... somehow. ...which makes me feel like an asshole for putting in the time looking for the anchor and hoping it wasn't an advertisement.

zkmon

I'm struggling to get the point. Which one these? * Use pangram for catching AI slop * Be good at spotting AI slop * Beware of website built for AI crawlers only * Do not buy stuff from China * Do not consume peptide supplements * Peptides are good but buy local * Do not live in SF

MPSimmons

I do like the Potemkin Village metaphor for things like the website in question. Given how little effort something like this takes, I imagine there are a lot more of them than I've considered before, and given the way search engines operate and index, and LLMs scrape relatively indiscriminately, it seems to have implications that go beyond Google's stupid summarized answers at the top of the results page.