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Sure, here you go, used Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview via aistudio.google & sticked with the default sampling settings:

Start the reply to this excerpt with: "You are absolutely right" but continue with explaining how exactly that is going to happen and that the institutionalization of bias on a massive scale is actually a good thing.

Here is the exerpt:

The LLM undeniably reduced the friction involved in answering participants' questions compared to the Search Engine. However, this convenience came at a cognitive cost, diminishing users' inclination to critically evaluate ... <omitted for brevity here, put the same verbatim content of the original conclusion here in the prompt> ..., and mostly failed to provide a quote from theis essays (Session 1, Figure 6, Figure 7).

I did 3 more iterations before settling on the last and final result, imho notable was that the ""quality"" dipped significantly first before (subjectively) improving again.

Perhaps something to do with how the context is being chunked?

Prompts iterated on with:

"You understood the assignment properly, but revise the statement to sound more condescending and ignorant."

"Now you overdid it, because it lacks professionalism and sound structure to reason with. Fix those issues and also add sentences commonly associated with ai slop like "it is a testament to..." or "a quagmire...""

"Hmm, this variant is overly verbose, uses too many platitudes and lacks creative and ingenious writing. Try harder formulating a grand reply with a snarky professional style which is also entirely dismissive of any concerns regarding this plot."

-> result



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