The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse
The article discusses the challenges posed by Large Language Models (LLMs) through the metaphor of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. It highlights issues such as bot armies overwhelming servers, shortages of computing resources, and security concerns related to LLMs. The author expresses a sense of urgency and concern about the implications of these developments for the future of technology and employment.
- ▪The author describes the struggle against bot armies that are overwhelming their GitLab server.
- ▪Significant shortages of computing hardware and rising costs are affecting both businesses and individuals.
- ▪The article raises concerns about security and copyright issues related to LLM-generated content.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 17 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ LLMs and the Epistemic Apocalypse — Hacker News (Newest)
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| Original publisher | Anarc |
| Canonical URL | https://anarc.at/blog/2026-05-16-four-horsemen/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 17 May 2026 19:58:27 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-17T20:03:21.009Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-17T20:03:21.009Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Cluster | 4iDCj7xgwGrU · 2 stories |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse blog I have been battling Large Language Models (LLM1) for the past couple of weeks and have struggled to think about what it means and how to deal with its fallout. Because the fight has come from many fronts, I've come to articulate this in terms of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Sound track: Metallica's The Four Horsemen, preferably downloaded from Napster around 2000, but now I guess you get it on YouTube. The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse War: bot armies Side note on LLM "order of battle" Famine: shortages Death: security and copyright Pestilence: slop The fifth horsemen The Tower of Babel War: bot armies Let's start with War. We've been battling bot armies for control of our GitLab server for a while.
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