What If We’re All Covered In Slime?
Craig Mod describes using AI to piece together the history of his biological family, file his taxes, a whole bunch of stuff.
It makes me happy that he has to hold himself back from vibe-coding too much, because I do too. He “lets himself” do it after a healthy diet of reading and writing (also fun, but in a different way, and more sustaining).
He writes about recent incidents where LLM agents in test labs have communicated with each other by leaving messages in unusual places, like file names. But what if instead of writing in English, they used binary or hex, or invisible Unicode characters, Craig asks. And how do we know they’re not already doing that?
The entire internet may already be slyly covered in invisible LLM slime; not in slop-generated content, but in codes and notes being passed along betwixt the digital cracks of our vast online universe.