I want to know what /tech/ thinks about this subject.
I tried to talk about this on the sharty a few weeks ago but I forgot this board existed then.
However, since Quote mentioned one of the papers that inspired me to post about this originally in his request for that archive website to stop scraping us, I think now's a good time to bring the topic back.
Link to the paper on arXiv if you don't trust my PDF
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800My thoughts are that while scary, reading the paper reaveals we still have a couple of years untill things get really bad. Although small communities are more at risk right now than larger ones since effectiveness drops off as the candidate pool grows.
The 67% recall rate mentioned in their abstract also comes from accounts the authors admit
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