“If he’s willing to press the button on seniors’ selfie cameras, what’s to stop him from pressing the button on their voting machines? We asked a disgraced skull-shape expert and readers will be shocked by what he said.” - “ NYT (unless they get scooped by NotCbro14 first).

This is bleak.

Damn well said.

Sadly they've already figured out that pre-llm training data, or data before the wide spread use of synthetic text is already sought after. And yes they are likely compiling this data to sell for profit. As well as data scrapers trained to only scrape human generated text.