Authors Confront LLM-Driven Online Snark Culture

This essay traces how large language models such as GPT-3 and ChatGPT have accelerated a confident, snark-driven online style, drawing on the author's early experiences at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and online journalism. It argues that LLMs mirror and amplify absolutist rhetorical tics from the 2010s internet, contributing to polarizing discourse, and urges writers and platform builders to intentionally craft styles that reduce misinformation and escalation.