Swampland as Tomorrowland: The LLM Fraud

LLM providers are selling data-center swampland as Tomorrowland and calling it artificial general intelligence—the modern equivalent of selling swampland as luxury property, scaled to an entire society. https://community.unix.com/t/swampland-as-tomorrowland-the-llm-fraud/397431

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-03-22
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19159606
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Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
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Swampland as Tomorrowland: The LLM Fraud

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Swampland as Tomorrowland: The LLM Fraud

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LLM providers are selling data-center swampland as Tomorrowland and calling it artificial general intelligence—the modern equivalent of selling swampland as luxury property, scaled to an entire society. https://community.unix.com/t/swampland-as-tomorrowland-the-llm-fraud/397431

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