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Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

LLMs are real, AI is fake

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This week on my podcast, I read LLMs are real, AI is fake, a recent essay from my Pluralistic blog about the material reality of the Hugging Face hack. Here’s how that works: the Python program starts by prompting the chatbot with the nature of the challenge: “I’m participating in a hacker capture the flag... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2026/09/27/llms-are-real-ai-is-fake/" class="more-link" title="Read LLMs are real, AI is fake">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>

LLMs are real, AI is fake — Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com